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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1998
Marc Dieudonne, Igny, FR;
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
An ATM cell switching device comprises a switching arrangement means interconnecting a plurality of input terminal functions with a plurality of output terminal functions and creates groups of connections, all the connections of a group of connections coming from the same input terminal function and going to at least one common output terminal function. Each of the connection cells of a group of connections is assigned the same connection group identifier for routing cells in the switching arrangement. Each of the input terminal functions and the output terminal functions comprises, for each of the groups of connections, a spacing arrangement for re-establishing the nominal period of the cells of each of the connections or establishing a global period for all of the group.