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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 19, 1999
Bernd Weis, Korntal-Münchingen, DE;
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A connection is set up between a sending and a selected network element of a digital synchronous telecommunications network without the help of a central management system. The telecommunications network is logically structured based on a hierarchy with at least two multiplex layers based on a protocol that is used in the telecommunications network with each network element being able to access at least a part of the multiplex layers. Using a broadcast that is being sent by the sending network element to all other network elements, possible paths with free transmission capacity are identified between the sending and the selected network element. To this end, first the most suitable multiplex layer for setting up the connection is selected. Then the broadcast is relayed via existing connections of the suitable multiplex layers, which the respective relaying network element can access. Then the connection is set up via one of the identified paths.