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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 04, 1997
Terence G. Hodgkinson, Woodbridge, GB;
Alan W. O'Neill, Ipswich, GB;
British Telecommunications public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
An ATM network includes a set of interconnected switches and gateways. The ATM network is capable of providing both a conventional connection-oriented service or a connectionless service. Where a connectionless service is required, at the input interface, source and destination addresses are inserted into the header and fields in the header are set to values which indicate that a connectionless service is required and whether or not additional processing is also required. At each node between the input interface and the output interface, where a connectionless service is required, each ATM cell is routed in accordance with its source address and destination address and/or a routing table which is set up by routing protocol or network management.