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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2000
Johan Johansson, San Diego, CA (US);
Lars-orjan Kling, Södertalje, SE;
Ake Lindholm, Tullinge, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a telecommunications node () that is able to handle IP-traffic and to terminate telecommunications traffic, which node includes means for simple and effective load distribution between resources (-) in the node. The inventive telecommunications node () includes board internal IP-subnets () with associated subnet interfaces () having interface addresses and a distributed forwarding engine structure where every device board () associated with the handling of IP-traffic is provided with a forwarding engine (-). Each board internal IP-subnet () is associated with at least one predetermined node resource (-) for processing telecommunications traffic, thereby enabling a resource manager () to perform load distribution by ordering a destination address for a selected stream of IP-traffic, which is to terminate in the node, to be based on the interface address associated with a selected board internal IP-subnet ().