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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thierry Grenot, Clamart, FR;
Assignee:
Thomson-CSF, Puteaux, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 601 ; 370 941 ;
Abstract
A transit switch of an asynchronous network, notably an ATM network, for the handling of information elements in the form of packets having a header part for the identification of a destination and a information element part, having a plurality of input junctors supplied with packets by a plurality of associated input channels, there are also a plurality of output junctors connected to the input junctors by a synchronous bus, a bus allocator circuit is connected to the input junctors and to the bus. The switch is arranged so that each input junctor transfers a received packet to at least one output junctor which is identified from the header part of the packet to be transferred.