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Distributed digital exchange with improved switching system and input processor

US4488290A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 4, 1982
Grant dateDec 11, 1984
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Expiry dateAug 4, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04Q11/0407
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A distributed digital exchange for completing a communications link between a selected originating channel and one or more selected destination channels. The exchange includes an input bus containing a given number of input lines, with each input line for conveying a time-division-multiplexed plurality of time-division-multiplexed input signals, with each data bit position of every frame of each input signal defining a discrete originating channel; a clock system for providing timing signals for defining frames and bit positions corresponding to the frames and bit positions of the input signals; an exchange bus containing at least the given number of lines for conveying the input signals; a novel input processor for receiving the input signals, for synchronizing the input signals in response to the timing signals and for transferring each received plurality of input signals from a selected line of the input bus to a selected line of the exchange bus; an output bus containing at least the given number of output lines, with each output line for conveying a time-division-multiplexed output signal, with each data bit position of every frame of each output signal defining a discrete des…

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