摘要:
The communication control system of the present invention includes a cell buffer assembly that is common to a plurality of input ports and stores cells. A writing controller and a reading controller respectively control a process of writing a cell into the cell buffer assembly and a process of reading a cell from the cell buffer assembly. A writing time management memory maps a writing time of each cell to each area in the cell buffer assembly and manages the mapping. A cell discard controller discards a cell having a long elapsed time since the writing time stored in the writing time management memory by the processing, which is independent of the processing by the writing controller and the reading controller. The arrangement of discarding the oldest cell independently of the writing and reading operations enables efficient discard of cells, while ensuring a desired communication rate. This arrangement simplifies the cell discard control and enhances its efficiency in the case of convergence in multiplex communication in the form of fixed-length cells.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method and system for providing media services in Voice over IP telephony. A switch is coupled between one or more audio sources and a network interface controller. The switch can be a packet switch or a cell switch.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for switching a data packet between a source and destination in a network. The data packet includes a header portion and a data portion. The header portion includes routing information for the data packet. The method includes defining a data path in the router comprising a path through the router along which the data portion of the data packet travels and defining a control path comprising a path through the router along which routing information from the header portion travels. The method includes separating the data path and control path in the router such that the routing information can be separated from the data portion allowing for the separate processing of each in the router. The data portion can be stored in a global memory while routing decisions are made on the routing information in the control path.
摘要:
A method, apparatus and system for the synchronized combining of packet data in a network includes sorting data packets received during a predetermined time period into groups according to for which communications device of the network the received data packets are intended. The data packets in each of the groups intended for the respective communications devices are respectively time aligned and orthogonally combined. The respectively combined data packets intended for each of the specific communications devices are subsequently transmitted to the intended device using a single header and in a substantially compressed format.
摘要:
This invention relates to a telecommunication switch (10) and an operating method for handling SDH signals transmitted by a protection SDH link associated to a working SDH link of a SDH hardware interface of the telecommunication switch. The telecommunication switch is comprising a plurality of SDH hardware interfaces (1,2,3,4), each comprising working link connecting means (11), being designed to be connected to a working SDH link (12) and protection link connecting means (13), being designed to be connected to a protection SDH link (14) associated to the working SDH link of the SDH hardware interface, wherein to each of said SDH hardware interfaces a SDH termination module (20) is connected, and—an equipment protection arrangement (30), comprising a protection switching hardware module (31) and a spare SDH termination module (32). Each of said SDH hardware interfaces (1,2,3,4) is connected to said equipment protection arrangement (30) by a first SDH connection (15) and a second SDH connection (16), and the protection SDH link (14) of a first SDH hardware interface (1) of said SDH hardware interfaces (1,2,3,4) is connected to a second SDH hardware interface (2) of said SDH hardware interfaces (1,2,3,4). The second SDH hardware interface (2) is being designed to forward protection SDH signals transmitted by said protection SDH link (14) of said first SDH hardware interface (1) to said equipment protection arrangement (30) using its first SDH connection (15) and said equipment protection arrangement (30) is being designed to switch said protection SDH signals to said spare SDH termination module (32) or the SDH termination module (20) being connected to said first SDH hardware interface (1) according to a protection switching control signal.
摘要:
Methods and apparatus are provided for managing protocol information in a PNNI hierarchical network. In a PAR-enabled device (1) of the network PAR PTSEs received by the PAR-enabled device (1) from the network are checked to identify redundant protocol information encapsulated in the PAR PTSEs. Protocol information in received PAR PTSEs is then supplied to a protocol device associated with the PAR-enabled device (1). In some embodiments, protocol information identified as redundant is excluded from the protocol information supplied to the protocol device. In other embodiments, the protocol information supplied to the protocol device is tagged to distinguish redundant protocol information from non-redundant protocol information. This facilitates efficient configuration of the network topology for the protocol in question.
摘要:
This invention provides an optical transmission with a demultiplexer for demultiplexing an input optical signal into optical signals of different channels and a multiplexer for multiplexing the optical signals outputted from the demultiplexer. The optical cross-connect device includes: N BICDR (Bit Rate Independent Clock and Data Recovery) receivers each for receiving the associated optical signals outputted from the demultiplexer, for converting the associated optical signal into an electrical signal and reproducing clocks and data based on the bit rate of the electrical signal; a switchboard with a cross-connect switch for receiving output signals from the respective N BICDR receiver; N bit rate discriminating units for receiving the output signals from the N BICDR receivers, respectively, thereby outputting bit rate discriminating signals associated with the N BICDR receivers, respectively; a temperature sensing unit for outputting a temperature sensing signal; and, a central processing unit for receiving the bit rate discriminating signals from the N bit rate discriminating unit, along with the temperature sensing signal from the temperature sensing unit, for compensating each of the received bit rate discriminating signals with a temperature-dependent bit rate value read out, based on the temperature sensing signal, from a memory, and for controlling the bit rate of the associated BICDR receiver based on the compensated bit rate.
摘要:
An Ethernet mapping enables high speed Ethernet data streams having a data rate of 10 Gb/s to be transported across a synchronous packet switched network fabric having a standard SONET OC-192 line rate of 9.953280 Gbaud. The 10 Gb/s Ethernet data stream is compressed by removing interframe gaps between successive MAC frames to produce a compressed data stream, which is then mapped to a synchronous container. The synchronous container is then launched across the synchronous packet switched network fabric at a standard SONET OC-192 line rate of 9.953280 Gbaud. The synchronous container is preferably provided as a stripped STS-192c frame having only A1 and A2 octets of the Transport Overhead (TOH). The compressed data stream is mapped directly to the synchronous container, starting at the first octet following the A1 and A2 octets, without first being inserted into a conventional STS-192c SPE, so that most of the space normally used for TOH and Path overhead (POH) within a conventional STS-192c frame is freed-up for carrying the compressed data stream. At a receiving interface, the compressed data stream is extracted from received synchronous containers and decompressed, by insertion of interframe gaps between successive MAC frames, to generate a recovered 10 Gb/s Ethernet data stream. The starting bit of each successive MAC frame can be identified by examination of the length field of the immediately previous MAC frame.
摘要:
When a malfunction of a master connection 100 is detected by an ATM exchanger, etc., a notice thereof is transmitted to an NMS 40. The NMS 40 is at all times kept monitoring the state within the network. When receiving the notice of the malfunction from the ATM exchanger, the NMS 40 operates on respective cell header translators (HT) 1B, 1C, 3B, and 3C that are associated with the master connection 100 that has malfunctioned. And, the NMS 40 changes the set values of the cell header translators according to the notice of the malfunction. As a result, the ATM cell is bypassed to a bypass connection 200.
摘要:
A ring network is provided. The ring network includes a number of network elements, each including first and second switch fabrics. At least two uni-directional busses are coupled between the first and second switch fabrics. A number of ring segments are coupled between adjacent network elements to form first and second routes for transporting cells using virtual connections wherein, for each virtual connection, one route is the working route and the other route is the protection route. The first and second switch fabrics of each network element are associated with one of the first and second routes. The first and second switch fabrics of each network element separately track the status of a number of virtual connections such that when an error is detected by one of the switch fabrics associated with a working route for a virtual connection, the switch fabric detecting the error communicates the change in state for the virtual connection to the other switch fabric over one of the first and second uni-directional busses to be used in a switching decision.