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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard John Proctor, Dorset, GB;
Mark Timothy Jeffrey, Dorset, GB;
Thomas Slade Maddern, Dorset, GB;
Assignee:
GPT Limited, , GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370398 ;
Abstract
An ATM telecommunications switch includes a plurality of parallel data switching planes and a parallel central plane, each plane having an equal number of input ports and output ports and a central switching unit to switch each input port to any output port. The switch further includes a first rotator to connect each input port cyclically to each timeslot of the central switching unit and a second rotator to connect each timeslot of the central switching unit cyclically to each output port.