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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 11, 1997
Cedell Adam Alexander, Jr, Durham, NC (US);
Charles Allen Carriker, Jr, Cary, NC (US);
John Kevin Frick, Raleigh, NC (US);
Edward Joel Rovner, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Matthew Blaze Squire, Raleigh, NC (US);
Deepak Vig, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An ATM communications network with several ELANs allows steady-state data to be passed between ATM attached devices which bypasses intermediate LECs and bridges. Connected to the ATM communications network is a bridge unit which includes a bridge and associated LECs. Also, an origination ATM attached device and a destination ATM attached device are attached to the ATM communications network via a first by a first ELAN and a second ELAN, respectively. The origination ATM attached device sends a request for an ATM address associated with the destination ATM attached device to the bridge, via the first ELAN. After some processing, the bridge returns the ATM address associated with the destination ATM attached device to the origination ATM attached device. This allows the origination ATM attached device to establish a shortcut VCC with the destination ATM attached device using the ATM address associated with the destination ATM attached device, thereby bypassing intermediate bridges and LECs.