Patent · US Expired

Telecommunication network

US5293570A · kind A · utility

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3References

3Claims

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Assignees

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE
GPT Limited Coventry · GB

Inventors

Lothar Schmidt · Bochum, DE
Alfred Jugel · Geretsried, DE
Andy Mallinson · Woodside, GB
Peter Rau · Leutenbach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 19, 1992
Grant date	Mar 8, 1994
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 19, 2012

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L2012/6459
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The telecommunication network is composed to a greater degree of ATM exchanges (ATM) and to a lesser degree of STM exchanges (STM). Information coming from an STM exchange (for example, STM1) and to be communicated to a further STM exchange (for example, STMy) via an ATM exchange (for example, ATM1) is packeted in message cells of the same length as those message cells used for the transmission between ATM exchanges in order to reduce the packeting time for the through-connection across the ATM exchange (ATM1). However, respective message parts of a plurality of STM time channels (K1 through K4) that are to be through-connected to the same ATM exchange output are multiplexed in a message cell.

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