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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1998
Andrew Timothy Hayter, Southampton, GB;
Roke Manor Research Limited, Hampshire, GB;
Abstract
A broadband telecommunications system comprises at least one broadband telecommunications switch, and a data transmitter coupled to the broadband telecommunications switch and to each of a plurality of data sources. The system operates to communicate date from the data sources to destinations in the form of a plurality of cells, the communication being arranged to satisfy predetermined transmission parameters. The transmission parameters include an initial cell rate representative of a maximum rate at which data from the data sources may be initially communicated to the telecommunications switch, when the sources become active. By providing the telecommunications switch with a bandwidth allocator which operates to calculate an available bandwidth for allocation between the plurality of data sources in accordance with a number of the data sources which are idle during a predetermined period scaled respectively by each initial cell rate, and operates to allocate the available bandwidth between active data sources, a data storage requirement may be substantially reduced.