Abstract:
A network device (NWE) for a digital transmission network with synchronous digital hierarchy receives data steams containing frames with data packets mapped therein and addressed by a phase reference identifier. Internally, the network device has redundant transfer paths which potentially cause different delay. The network element compensates for that delay by adjusting the phase reference identifier allocated to a respective data packet by a predetermined phase correcting value, leading in the phase, which corresponds to a maximum expected delay for transfer of the data packets on internal transfer paths, and by buffering the data packet by a buffering time such that its buffering time and its delay actually needed for passing through the network device in total correspond to the maximum expected delay taken into account by the phase adjustment.
Abstract:
The network access node of a digital communication system for the bidirectional transmission of message signals between, for example, a switching center and subscribers as an electrically switchable connection between the lines to the switching centers with a first interface and the lines to the subscribers with a second interface. The first interface is preferably an interface for a time-division multiplex signal with a transmission rate of 2 Mbit/s; the second interface is preferably an interface for signals in multiple access with time-division multiplex (TDM/TDMA). The buffer memory of the TDM/TDMA system is made up of partial memories arranged as a matrix. The partial memories are used simultaneously as a buffer memory for the circuit of the paths.