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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 04, 1997
Hideaki Mochizuki, Kawasaki, JP;
Ritsuko Ohkura, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An add drop multiplexing (ADM) apparatus has a simple and compact structure. The ADM apparatus has high-order interfaces connected to a high-order network, path setting units each for setting a path for a signal according to path data and inserting or dropping the signal to or from the high-order network, a first path protection switch for selecting one of the signals dropped by the path setting units, low-order interfaces each for receiving the selected signal and transmitting the same to a low-order network, and a second path protection switch for receiving low-order signals from the low-order interfaces and transferring one of them to the path setting units so that the path setting units may insert the signal into the high-order network.