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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1992
Makoto Nishio, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an optical ATM switching system, an optical ATM cell is produced in response to an incoming ATM cell so that it contains an optical routing bit in a timeslot corresponding to the destination of the cell. A first switching stage is provided for routing the cell from one of its inlets to one of its outlets in accordance with the routing bit contained in the cell and generating a routing signal indicative of the position of the outlet to which the cell is routed. A second switching stage is connected to the outlets of the first switching stage for routing the cell to one of optical buffers in response to the routing signal from the first switching stage. Optical combiners are provided, each corresponding to a group of the optical buffers for combining outputs of the corresponding group of optical combiners.