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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 24, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Mouen Makoua, Nanterre, FR;
Pierre Dumas, Sevres, FR;
Assignee:
Thomson CSF, Paris, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a process for translating an ATM cell header for the routing thereof over a transmission highway of a communication network via an ATM switch, consisting in having the switch translate the pair (VPI, VCI) contained in the cell header, the first field VPI identifying a virtual path number and the second field VCI selecting a specified virtual channel within the virtual path.