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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hosame Hassan Abu-Amara, Richardson, TX (US);
Venkat Kotamarti, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Northern Telecom Limited, Montreal, CA;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370411 ; 370395 ; 370424 ; 370388 ;
Abstract
A switch that has a plurality of inputs in which cells are received at these inputs. Each cell received at the inputs of the switch contain routing information. A routing means is employed to route the cells received at the inputs of the switch to outputs using routing information in which a number of the cells are misrouted by the routing means during the process of routing the cells to the outputs. Bus means is employed to route a cell to the destination in which the bus means is connected to the routing means. The bus means routes misrouted cells that are misrouted from the destination by some selected amount.