Compagnie Industrielle Des Telecommunications Cit-alcatel

Societe Lannionnaise D'electronique Sle-citerel S. A.

Yves Renaudin

Philippe Duplessis

Alain Lalanne

Philippe Delpit

Daniel Bordon

Digital frequency receiver

An alarm preprocessing logic system for use in a computer controlled digital switching exchange including a central computer, the alarm preprocessing logic system comprising defence modules each allotted to a respective portion of the exchange for detecting a plurality of types of alarm therein and including means for forwarding detected alarms via redundant alarm data transmission means (CAa, CAb, SLM1, SLM2, COL) to alarm processing logic including: means for confirming an alarm (PT2); means for attributing a category to received alarms depending on type of alarm and on the exchange unit which originated the alarm; and means for grouping alarms according to the category attributed thereto (PT1, MDI, MAP), and for classifying alarms in an order of priority; the alarm processing system further comprising data interchange logic connecting the alarm processing logic to the exchange central computer and arranged to ensure that alarms are sent to the central computer in their order of priority.

Alarm preprocessor logic

A relay matrix which constitutes an array of switches providing connection points between a set of 'horizontal' inputs and a set of 'vertical' outputs, has n relays per column disposed in p columns. Each relay column is associated with a register which fulfills the functions of controlling and storing the state of the relays of the column. The invention can be applied to switching systems and in particular to automatic telecommunication exchanges.

Relay matrix switch

A concentrator for use in a PCM telephone network. The concentrator has conventional units such as line equipments, a space concentration network and a coder/decoder-PCM sampler and additionally includes a time cross-connection network and two different types of junctors, one type being a complete junctor and the other type (a simplified type) conducting only during the conversation part of a call. The concentrator therefore arranges firstly for a normal junctor to set a call up, then subsequently releases it, substituting it by a simplified junctor. This substitution causes a complementary modification of the time connection in the time connection network to keep the same connection channel with the exchange.

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Bougival, France

Yves Renaudin