Dynamically controlled routing using dynamic management of intra-link traffic to virtual destination nodes

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A dynamically controlled routing (DCR) telecommunications network (31A) comprises a plurality of network switching elements (a b, c, o, t) , interconnected by circuit groups (a-b o-a, o-b, o-c, ...) for carrying calls and a network processor (25A) communicating with the network elements. At least one of the nodes is a virtual destination node (V) which is a logical entity corresponding to a group of two or more components which are network elements. A link to the virtual destination node need not correspond to a circuit group but is a set of circuit groups connecting to the components of the virtual destination node. Final destinations outside the DCR network can be associated with …