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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1997
Daniel J Kerns, Petaluma, CA (US);
Paul M Elliott, Jenner, CA (US);
Dieter H Nattkemper, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Alcatel USA Sourcing, L.P., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A distributed telecommunications switching system (100) is disclosed. The system includes a controller (140) that generates and transmits a cell stream with a plurality of reserved cells. A first switching subsystem (104) in communication with the controller (140) receives the cell stream and a first plurality of cells. The first switching subsystem (104) identifies the reserved cells in the cell stream and replaces selected ones of the reserved cells with selected ones of the first plurality of cells to produce a modified cell stream. The modified cell stream is transmitted to a second switching subsystem (102).