Abstract:
A supervision control system for an ATM cell switching system counts the number of cells transmitted from a subscriber in a predetermined duration unit, attaches a sign to the cells when the counted value exceeds a predetermined value, and discards the cells to which the sign is attached when a buffer does not have enough capacity during a cell multiplexation.
Abstract:
A control data transmission system controls an electronic switching system with few signal lines. Control data are split into a plurality of fixed-length bit blocks. The control data sequence number specification signals identify the fixed-length bit blocks. The control data sequence number specification signals are paired with corresponding control data signals carrying the contents of one of the fixed-length bit blocks and a control data validity specification signal for validating transmission of the control data. The control data sequence number specification signals are decoded and the contents of respective bit blocks carried by the control data signals are stored according to the decoding result and the control data validity specification signal. When the contents of the fixed-length bit blocks carried by the control data signals for one unit of control data are stored, the control data are analyzed.
Abstract:
A broadband ISDN remote multiplexer, which is constructed by separating a subscriber line interfacing section from an ATM exchange and installing the same at a remote location connected via a high-speed transmission line, comprises: a first interface unit for carrying out conversion between a transmitted signal of UNI format, carrying a destination number in its GFC field and transmitted over a transmission medium interconnecting the ATM exchange and the broadband ISDN remote multiplexer, and a first path-control signal that directs a connection within the remote multiplexer in accordance with the destination number; a plurality of subscriber line interface units for terminating respectively the plurality of broadband ISDN subscriber lines; and a multiplexing/demultiplexing unit for making a connection between the first interface unit and each of the subscriber line interface units in accordance with the first path-control signal.
Abstract:
It is determined whether or not a passing cell is a cell to be measured. If yes, a signal synchronous with the passing cycle of the cell is generated by a synchronous signal generator. The synchronous signal is digitally processed by a digital signal processor. Thus, each parameter related to the number of passing cells is obtained by converting the analysis based on the time axis to the area analysis based on the frequency axis.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a transmission line test method in the broadband ISDN for assembling an ATM formatted cell into a frame and sending it in the synchronous optical network (SONET) formatted transmission line as a protocol of an optical fiber communication network. First, test data are inserted into an ATM cell according to a command of the central controlling unit in an ATM switching unit. Then, the test cell is sent through an ATM switch in the ATM switching unit after the insertion of the test data; the test data are extracted from the test cell turned around by an ATM layer provided between the ATM switch and the SONET-formatted transmission line or by a subscriber terminal adapter, or from the test frame (including the test cell) turned around by a terminator in the SONET-formatted transmission line or by a network terminator at a subscriber terminal in the transmission line; and finally a transmission test is conducted by checking the data in the line up to each turnaround point.
Abstract:
A sending trunk on the input side of an ATM switch is equipped with a test cell generating section, and a receiving trunk on the output side of the ATM switch is equipped with a test cell detecting section. The test cell generating section includes a unit for setting a test cell identifier in the header of a test cell and a unit for generating pieces of data with regularity in the information field of the test cell. The test cell detecting section includes a unit for detecting the test cell identifier from the header of a cell received and a unit for detecting regularity from data in the information field of the cell received. When a test cell is transmitted, the test cell detecting section evaluates the result of a test on the basis of the result of detection of the test cell identifier from the header of the test cell and the result of detection of the regularity from data in the information field of the test cell.
Abstract:
A CRC operating unit which performs a CRC operation on received data using as an initial value a CRC operation result actual value obtained in a previous operation, and outputs a CRC operation result actual value. A delay unit delays the CRC operation result actual value by the time taken for a header part to be entered. The CRC operation result derivation unit outputs as a CRC operation result derivation value an operation result obtained by a CRC operation performed for all the receiving data of a header part provided with the above described CRC code using the CRC operation result actual value as an initial value. The coincidence detecting unit compares the CRC operation result actual value with the CRC operation result derivation value to detect the input timing of a header part as coincident timing for both values.
Abstract:
A virtual channel converter converts a virtual path identifier and a virtual channel identifier, e.g. in a twenty-eight (28) bit frame, attached to the header part of an incoming ATM cell on an input highway to an ATM switcher to identifiers to be attached to an outgoing ATM cell on an output highway capable of fully supporting all the combinations, two hundred fifty-six (256) for example, of a virtual path identifier and a virtual channel identifier no matter where the virtual path identifier and the virtual channel identifier are located in the twenty-eight (28) bit frame. The virtual channel converter comprises a plurality of identifier comparator units and a controller. Each of the identifier comparator units has an input identifier memory for storing an identifier attached to an ATM cell and a comparator for comparing the identifiers of an incoming ATM cell with the identifiers stored in the input identifier memory. The controller instructs respective input identifier memories to store all the values of identifiers attached to incoming ATM cells from a user to a switcher on a one-to-one basis.
Abstract:
In a data access device for writing into or read from a data conversion table on the basis of a clock signal extracted from a cell being transferred over a line, a clock signal generator of the invention generates a second clock signal which differs from the first clock signal extracted from an incoming cell. A write/read control unit writes data into or reads data for maintenance from the data conversion table on the basis of either the first clock signal or the second clock signal when the line is normal. In the event of the occurrence of a failure in the line, on the other hand, the write/read control circuit permits the data conversion table to be written into or read from for maintenance on the basis of the second clock signal.
Abstract:
A test system exactly checks the integrity of data in an ATM system, and generates a test cell of a desired band. In the first aspect of the system in which data stored in an ATM cell are transmitted in an 8-bit parallel format in the ATM system, a test cell generating device connected to an input line outputs a test cell having 1 in all of the eight bits or having zero in all of the eight bits, and the test cell confirming device connected to an output line of the ATM switch detects the above described data. In the second aspect, the test cell generating device provided in an input trunk outputs a test cell of a desired band based on a ratio between two optional integers N and n (N.gtoreq.n), the state of a buffer of the ATM switch is monitored, and a load test is conducted to determine whether or not any cell has been destroyed.