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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 1983
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1980
Stewart E Miller, Locust, NJ (US);
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Transmission configurations are described for providing usable service despite the complete interruption of one or more of several transmission links. This is accomplished by encoding (11) the information content of each of a plurality of input signals (S.sub.1, S.sub.2 . . . S.sub.n) into a multiplicity of encoded signals (s.sub.1, s.sub.2 . . . s.sub.m) for simultaneous transmission along a multiplicity of transmission links (13.1, 13.2 . . . 13.m). At the receiver, a decoder (12) recovers the individual input signals. By accepting temporarily either a bandwidth or a signal-to-noise reduction, service is continued even though one or more of the transmission links fails.