摘要:
A multi-stage link switch includes first, second and third switch elements, each of the first, second and third switch elements having a predetermined plurality of incoming terminals and a predetermined plurality of outgoing terminals. Communication information is switched between a plurality of incoming highways and a plurality of outgoing highways based on information in each of a plurality of cells. Each cell has fixed length and is transmitted by each of the incoming highways to the plurality of outgoing highways. The multi-stage link switch includes a primary stage including a plurality of the first switch elements, each input terminal of each first switch element is connected to a corresponding one of the input highways, an intermediate stage including a plurality of the second switch elements, each input terminal of each of the second switch elements is being connected to a corresponding one of the output terminals of a corresponding one of the first switch elements of the primary stage, and a last stage including a plurality of the third switch elements, each input terminal of each of the third switch elements being connected to a corresponding one of the output terminals of a corresponding one of the second switch elements in the intermediate stage. Each outgoing terminal of each of the third switch elements is connected to a corresponding one of the outgoing highways.
摘要:
Identifying valid data cells of a call in a redundant path combining unit of an asynchronous transfer mode switch having duplicated switching planes includes identifying the plane of the last data cell to be passed in respect of a particular call, checking that a sequence number associated with the data cell is not one greater than that stored in a storage device, checking that the last data cell to be passed on the particular call was from the same plane, checking if the data cell is a duplicate of the last data cell to arrive on this plane, and passing the data cell to an output store if (c) is true and (d) is not true and storing in the storage device the sequence number of the data cell. A transceiver receives and transmits data and a first store is connected to the transceiver for storing plane identification data and data cell sequence number data. A second store stores a call identifier used to address the first store and a sequence number related to a particular call, for presentation to an addressed location in the first store. A first comparator receives the sequence number from the second store and a sequence number from the first store and compares these numbers, while a second comparator receives the sequence number from the second store, and the sequence number from the first store by way of an incrementer which increments the sequence number by one, and compares the numbers. Data cell acceptance logic circuitry is connected to the first and second comparators and generates read and write control signals for the first store, in accordance with output signals generated by the first and second comparators.
摘要:
An m.times.n (m>n) output Packet Switch Unit is implemented by using an n.times.n Packet Switch Module and an m:n Concentrator. The arriving packet cells are supplied from the m Concentrator inputs to the n Concentrator outputs in a "first-in first-out" (FIFO) sequence. The Concentrator provides for buffering of arriving packet cells on the m Concentrator inputs in excess of available packet cell positions in the n Concentrator outputs until they can be supplied to a concentrator output in the FIFO sequence. In turn, packet cells from the n Concentrator outputs are supplied to n inputs of the Packet Switch Module which supplies them to appropriate output destinations associated with the n outputs of the Packet Switch Module. A plurality of the Concentrator-Based output Packet Switch Units is readily employed to implement any "larger" Packet Switch architecture.
摘要:
A novel packet-oriented multiple path self-routing switching network for switching asynchronous time-division multiplexed packets is characterized in that each switch unit of at least one upstream stage of the switching network includes means for defining an available state in which the downstream switch unit is available for routing packet traffic and for transmitting availability status information to upstream switch units when the downstream switch unit is in that available state, and is further characterized in that each upstream switch unit includes means for receiving availability status information for those outputs leading to a switch unit in the available state, and for prohibiting access to any output for which such availability status information is not received.
摘要:
A packet parallel interconnection network for routing packets in parallel form comprises a three-dimensional space domain switch which interconnects a plurality of time domain switches in the form of multiple two level bus systems with separate data and control paths. The space domain switch comprises one control plane and a plurality of data switching planes such that the i.sup.th data switching plane routes the i.sup.th data slice of a packet. The control plane and the data switching planes comprise output buffered crosspoint switches. The control plane processes address information in the packets to be routed and broadcasts routing information to the data switching planes to control the routing of data slices by the data switching planes. It is a significant advantage of the time and space domain switches that decoupled control and data paths provide for overlapped control processing and data routing. The inventive interconnection network is especially useful for implementing a parallel processing system for processing database queries.
摘要:
For receiving and forwarding message cells transmitted according to an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) by an ATM switching equipment which comprises a multi-stage reversing switching matrix network, each of the message cells has a routing information block having a plurality of routing information corresponding in number of the plurality of switching matrix stages to be traversed located in front thereof within the ATM switching equipment and the routing information just evaluated for the forwarding of a message cell through one of the switching matrix stages is subsequently displaced to the end of the respective routing information block. It is thereby provided that each of the routing information of the routing information block has a separate security information attached thereto and the security information is falsified, together with the displacement of a routing information to the end of the respective routing information block. A message cell is thereby only forwarded via a switching matrix stage when the routing information to be evaluated for that purpose has been recognized as being free of error on the basis of the attached security information.
摘要:
A 3-stage switching system is provided for generating, i.e. finding, reserving and setting, path from one switch entrance port (1) to at least one switch exit port (transmit side) for asynchronously received and buffered data cells. While an Nth cell is being transferred, control means (36) generate a control word including the switch exit port address for cell (N+1)th to be subsequently transferred. Said control word is used to find and reserve a path through the switch on a stage-by-stage basis, and then set said path, if any, using a fed back acknowledgement. The (N+1)th cell path generation is performed during cell N transfer, on a cycle stealing basis.
摘要:
A packet switching network that accommodates the appearance of multiple occurrences of packets addressed to the same destination are accommodated. The network includes a recirculating delay block within the switch, and an expander that includes a modest number of multiple appearances of the same address, followed by memories that accept the packets delivered at those multiple appearances, store the packets, and output the stored packets to the user, one at a time, in accordance with a set priority scheme.
摘要:
A packet switching architecture in which switching network nodes automatically determine alternate routes through a switching network so as to increase reliability and distribute traffic. The switching network comprises stages of distribution and routing nodes. The routing nodes are responsive to physical addresses associated with the packets to communicate those packets to address designated downstream nodes. The distribution switching nodes statistically communicate packets to downstream switching nodes on the basis of an alternate routing algorithm and availability of downstream nodes. The initial network stages are alternate distribution and routing stages followed by only routing stages for the remaining stages of the network. Both the routing and the distributing nodes are identical in design and are responsive to an input signal from the network to assume either routing or distributing functions.
摘要:
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, devices, computer program products, and methods implementing aspects of a decentralized content fabric. In some implementations, one or more processors are configured to execute a software stack to define a fabric node of a plurality of fabric nodes of an overlay network situated in an application layer differentiated from an internet protocol layer. The defined fabric node is configured to: obtain a request for digital content from a client device; obtain, from one or more of the plurality of fabric nodes, a plurality of content object parts of a content object representing, in the overlay network, at least a portion of the digital content; generate consumable media using: raw data stored in the content object parts, metadata stored in the content object parts, and build instructions stored in the content object parts; and provide the consumable media to the client device. In some instances, the consumable media is further generated using a digital contract stored in a blockchain.