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Sub-rate time switch

US5287350A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 27, 1991
Grant dateFeb 15, 1994
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Expiry dateSep 27, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04Q11/08
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A sub-rate time switch switches a digital multiplexed signal having a basic-rate signal included in a first time slot of the digital multiplexed signal and N sub-rate signals included in a second time slot thereof where N is an integer. Each the sub-rate signals has a sub-rate which is equal to 1/N times a basic rate of the basic rate signal. A speech path memory temporarily stores the digital multiplexed signal input to the sub-rate time switch. A channel signal is read out from the speech path memory and has a plurality of channels corresponding to time slots of the digital multiplexed signal. A control part controls write and read operations of the speech path memory so that the channel signal includes N consecutive channels. Each of the N consecutive channels includes N identical sub-rate signals, and each of the N identical sub-rate signals corresponds to one of the N sub-rate signals included in the second time slot of the digital multiplexed signal.

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