Abstract:
Four SR modules are provided in the second stage of a 3-stage MSSR switch. To guarantee the MSSR switch the capacity of 20 Gbps, SR modules are provided in each of the first and third stages of the switch. When the capacity of the MSSR switch is extended from 20 Gbps to 40 Gbps, SR modules are added to both of the first and third stages and connected to the four SR modules in the second stage. To further extend the capacity of the MSSR switch to 60 or 80 Gbps, the SR modules are sequentially added to the first and third stages, and the newly provided SR modules are connected to the four SR modules in the second stage.
Abstract:
A reconfigurable operation apparatus consists of a plurality of operation units capable of reconfiguring themselves by using a piece of given first configuration data and of operating simultaneously with one another; RAMs; diverse processor elements required for constituting an operation apparatus; an inter-resource network interconnecting the operation units, the RAMs and the diverse processor elements, performing data transfers between resources connected thereto in a uniform transfer time independent of positions and kinds of the resources, and being reconfigurable by using a given second configuration data; and a configuration memory storing the first and the second configuration data. Configuration data is loaded from an external storage apparatus onto the configuration memory, and the first and the second configuration data are supplied to the reconfigurable processor resources in appropriate sequence and timing based on data available from a plurality of operation units.
Abstract:
In a common buffering device with a simple arrangement, a write address can be efficiently released from a buffer memory upon receipt of a multi-address call. For an ATM cell which is to be transmitted to a specific line, a write address is set in a common buffer memory, and the ATM cell is written at the write address. The ATM cell is read from an address which corresponds to the write address, and is transmitted to the specific line. Then, the pertinent write address is released. In a write table are entered a plurality of multi-address lines across which an ATM cell written at a specific address in the common buffering device can be multicast. Each time the ATM cell is read from the specific address, a designation line for transmission of an ATM cell in a read control table is compared with the multi-address lines set in the write control table. When the lines match, the write address for the ATM cell, which is set in the write control table, is released.
Abstract:
A switching path setting system is disposed between an input line connected to switching equipment and a switch. An input interface device allocates a cell to a quality class as tag information corresponding to an identifier of the cell. A quality class buffer stores the cell corresponding to the quality class allocated by the input interface device corresponding to the quality class. A cell is read from the quality class buffer at a band allocated to each quality class.
Abstract:
A communications apparatus for switching among different interfaces includes a switch unit. The switch unit includes a main switch for switching data of a fixed length and an interface having a first buffer for an input of the main switch and a second buffer for an output of the main switch.
Abstract:
A processor executes a predetermined operation process by switching a connection structure between a plurality of arithmetic and logic unit modules. Each of the arithmetic and logic unit modules includes a plurality of arithmetic and logic units. The arithmetic and logic unit modules include a first arithmetic and logic unit module that includes a plurality of arithmetic and logic units that executes various operation processes, and a second arithmetic and logic unit module that includes a plurality of arithmetic and logic units of which executable operation processes are limited compared with the first arithmetic and logic unit module.
Abstract:
A service identification adding portion adds service identification information to a cell corresponding to each connection that uses a predetermined communication service (ABR service) and that is input to a switch system. A connection number counting portion counts the number of connections that use the communication service on each output line at predetermined intervals. A band control information generating portion generates band control information corresponding to each output line at predetermined intervals based on the number of connections counted at predetermined intervals. A band control information indicating portion sends band control information at predetermined intervals corresponding to each output line to a transmission side terminal corresponding to a connection that uses the communication service on each output line.
Abstract:
A switching system in an ATM switching system accommodating an ABR is constructed of an individual units connected to a transmitting terminal or a receiving terminal to implement an efficient bandwidth authorization, and a plurality of intra-system relay devices having transmission allowed rate calculating units. In this switching system, there are separated a transfer of a management cell between the transmitting terminal or the receiving terminal and the individual unit and a transfer of the management cell between the plurality of intra-system relay devices.
Abstract:
A congestion-monitor control apparatus monitors a congestion condition of each output highway in an asynchronous transfer mode switching system transferring cells to output highways by using a cell-storage buffer. The apparatus includes a monitor circuit monitoring the number of cells stored in the cell-storage buffer for each output highway at a plurality of timings during a given monitor time interval. The apparatus further includes a first determination circuit comparing the number of times when the number of cells from the monitor circuit is equal to or more than a first threshold value during the given monitor time interval with a second threshold value and determining whether the congestion has occurred in a corresponding output highway based on a comparison result.
Abstract:
A test cell generating section periodically generates a pass determining test cell at preset timing, multiplexes them with user cells from a user line interface, and transmits the result of multiplexing to an ATM exchange. When no user cell is supplied from the user line interface, the test cell generating section transmits only the pass determining test cell to the ATM exchange. A cell determining section determines whether a cell supplied from the ATM exchange is a user cell or test cell, identifies/determines the pass based on information of the test cell and outputs only the user cell to the user line side when the supplied cell is the test cell.