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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Reshad Rahman, Ottawa, CA;
Douglas H Patriarche, Nepean, CA;
Richard Vallee, Gatineau, CA;
Stuart C White, Nepean, CA;
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Corporation, Montreal, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08C / ; H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370238 ; 370252 ; 370536 ; 709241 ;
Abstract
In ATM networks, digital data in ATM cells are sent to a destination node over a connection made up of more than one transmission link in round robin fashion. This is called inverse multiplexing. Suitable transmission links are selected among a plurality of provisionable transmission links according to some selection criteria. According to some embodiments of the invention, the selection criteria are minimum delay and maximum bandwidth.