Optical telecommunications network
US6069720A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 12, 1999 |
| Grant date | May 30, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 12, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04Q2011/0092
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A packet carried on an optical network is routed by carrying out a logic operation on an address word carried in a packet header and a predetermined discriminator word. A routing decision is made in accordance with the result of the logic operation. The logic operation may be a bit-wise Boolean AND operation. An additional logic operation may be carried out with an additional discriminator word to determine whether the packet is destined for a remote region of the network. In this case, the packet may be steered directly to the remote region.
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