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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 23, 1991
Masao Kunimoto, Yokohama, JP;
Jiro Kashio, Kawasaki, JP;
Kenji Kawakita, Yokohama, JP;
Shinobu Gohara, Yokohama, JP;
Shinichi Iwaki, Kamakura, JP;
Hiroyuki Ichikawa, Hino, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An adaptation processing apparatus for assembling received data units of a fixed length to provide variable length data units and transmitting the variable length data units to a plurality of variable length data unit processors while assembling variable length data units received from said plurality of the variable length data unit processors to provide fixed length data units for transmission thereof. An ATM switching system includes the adaptation processing apparatus, a signal processing unit including the plurality of variable length data unit processors mentioned above, and first-in first-out mechanisms for the variable length data units provided in the adaptation processing apparatus in association with every one of the plural variable length data unit processors.