公开(公告)号：EP0954945A1

公开(公告)日：1999-11-10

申请号：EP98901274.0

申请日：1998-01-20

申请人： NORTEL NETWORKS CORPORATION

发明人： GODSE, Dhananjay, Damodar ,  GAGE, William, Anthony ,  GAZIER, Michael, A. ,  CHAPMAN, Alan, Stanley, John

IPC分类号： H04Q11 ,  H04L12

CPC分类号： H04Q11/0478 ,  H04L2012/5614 ,  H04L2012/563 ,  H04L2012/5672

摘要： A plurality of end devices are coupled via a shared port to an asynchronous network in which traffic is carried in cells. A cell multiplexer is disposed between the devices and the port and is adapted to multiplex cells from the devices to the port in the order in which they are received by the multiplexer. The multiplexer broadcasts cells received from the network to all of the devices. Each said device is allocated a respective VCI so that it can identify its own cells from the broadcast cells.