Method for setting up a connection in a synchronous digital telecommunications network and network element
CA 2257567 A1 · Owner: Weis, Bernd · Inventors: Weis, Bernd
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The goal is to set up a connection between a sending and a selected network element of a digital synchronous telecommunications network without the help of a central management system. The telecommunications network is logically structured based on a hierarchy with at least two multiplex layers based on a protocol that is used in the telecommunications network with each network element being able to access at least a part of the multiplex layers. Using a broadcast that is being sent by the sending network element to all other network elements, possible paths with free transmission capacity are identified between the sending and the selected network element. To this end first the most …
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- Filed January 18, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 18, 2019.
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