High capacity switching system

US9173012B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Alcatel Lucent · FR

Inventors

• Gerhard Meyer · Lehrberg, DE
• Herbert Haunstein · Dormitz, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 26, 2010
• Grant date: Oct 27, 2015
• Expiry date: Sep 17, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04Q2011/0052
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An exemplary apparatus is provided for a high capacity switching system for use in a transport network, which contains a number of input and output subsystems and a central interconnection means configurably interconnecting the input and output subsystems. The subsystems have input and output line modules for receiving and transmitting data signals to and from transmission lines of the network, one or more link modules connecting the subsystems to the interconnection means, and local switching means switching data signals in time and space domain between the input and output modules and the one or more link modules within one subsystems. The link modules are adapted to aggregate data signals from different input and output line modules of the same input and output subsystems and destined to input and output line modules of another one of the input and output subsystems into signal bursts and add a payload gap to each signal burst.