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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1999
Klaus Wehrend, Eichenau, DE;
Gerhard Benning, Unterschleissheim, DE;
Josef Fellerer, München, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A communication system for switching data packets, with allocated items of routing information, between connected communication terminal apparatuses and/or communication terminal apparatuses of connected local networks wherein the system includes at least one network coupling unit in which means are arranged for the evaluation of the routing information, for the switching of the data packets dependent on the result of the evaluation, and for the adaptation, in accordance with format, of the data packets. Through the advantageous arrangement of router functions in the network coupling unit, an economical switching-oriented connected can be made between a local network and a public network.