H - Electricity – 04 – Q
Patent
H - Electricity
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Q
344/25
H04Q 11/04 (2006.01) H04L 12/64 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1261444
BURST-SWITCHING COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM ABSTRACT: A distributed-control burst-switching communications system with fully integrated voice and data services, and with processing capacity sufficient to support T1 or higher transmission rates. The system may include a high-speed hub switch located at a point of high-traffic concentration in the network and a plurality of link switches. The switches are interconnected by time-division multiplexed communications links. Each switch includes one or more ports. Each port provides access to the system for a control processor, an end-user, or another communications system. Within each switch, there is switching intelligence for routing a burst toward its destination port. A burst is a variable-length sequence of bytes which represents, for example, a block of data or a spurt of voice energy as sensed by silence/voice detectors located at voice ports. Within a communications link, a burst is transmitted one byte at a time in an assigned channel of sequential frames of the time-division multiplexed link. The routing intelligence at each switch employs dynamic allocation of bursts to channels within communications links such that any channel of a communications link is allocated only when a burst is being transmitted therein and such channel is otherwise available for transmission of another burst.
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Amstutz Stanford R.
Haselton E. Fletcher
Lenart Joseph M.
Gte Laboratories Incorporated
R. William Wray & Associates
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