Integrated voice/data network
First Claim
1. A data switching network comprisingat least one packet switching node containing a packet switch,at least one remote transmission site and data transmission means between the remote site and switching node, said remote site havingmeans for receiving digitized voice and data samples from a plurality of incoming digital channels on each recursive scan of the channels,means responsive to the receiving means for detecting active and idle data intervals on the incoming channels,means responsive to the detecting means for dynamically compressing the digitized voice samples in an instant scan of samples so that the instant data samples and compressed voice samples fit into a fixed size data block, each data block containing logical channel numbers for the digitized voice and data samples assigned to each incoming channel at the beginning of an active interval, and the samples,means for transmitting the data blocks to said switching node, said packet switching node further comprisingmeans at an input side (R section of LTI) of the switching node for receiving the data blocks and containingmeans for separating the samples associated with different logical channel numbers,means for attaching packet headers containing a switch routing address to the separated samples to form packets,means for transmitting the packets to the switch,a plurality of means at an output side (T section of LTI) of the switch for receiving packets from the switch, and containingmeans for stripping away the packet headers,means for reformatting the digitized voice and data samples into said fixed-size data blocks, andmeans for transmitting the data blocks to another switching node or remote transmission node.
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Abstract
Circuits at a remote transmission site receive digitized voice and data samples from incoming channels. The voice samples are compressed. The samples are formatted into fixed-size data blocks with signaling and control information for transmission to a switching node. Additional bits of the voice samples are dynamically dropped, if necessary, to fit the data into the fixed-sized blocks. The signaling and control information allows receiving circuits at the switching node to determine the number of bits allocated to each sample. These receiving circuits form packets for individual channels by attaching switch routing packet headers to the individual channel data. Packet receiving circuits on the output side of the switch reformat the received packets into fixed-size nonpacket data blocks for transmission.
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1. A data switching network comprising
at least one packet switching node containing a packet switch, at least one remote transmission site and data transmission means between the remote site and switching node, said remote site having means for receiving digitized voice and data samples from a plurality of incoming digital channels on each recursive scan of the channels, means responsive to the receiving means for detecting active and idle data intervals on the incoming channels, means responsive to the detecting means for dynamically compressing the digitized voice samples in an instant scan of samples so that the instant data samples and compressed voice samples fit into a fixed size data block, each data block containing logical channel numbers for the digitized voice and data samples assigned to each incoming channel at the beginning of an active interval, and the samples, means for transmitting the data blocks to said switching node, said packet switching node further comprising means at an input side (R section of LTI) of the switching node for receiving the data blocks and containing means for separating the samples associated with different logical channel numbers, means for attaching packet headers containing a switch routing address to the separated samples to form packets, means for transmitting the packets to the switch, a plurality of means at an output side (T section of LTI) of the switch for receiving packets from the switch, and containing means for stripping away the packet headers, means for reformatting the digitized voice and data samples into said fixed-size data blocks, and means for transmitting the data blocks to another switching node or remote transmission node.
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13. A data switch network comprising
one or more packet switching nodes, each having a packet switch self-routing based on address information contained in headers of packets, a plurality of input trunk interface means connected to the switch at a switching node, a plurality of output trunk interface means connected to the switch at a switching node, a central processing unit connected to the switch at a switching node, a plurality of remote transmission nodes, transmission links connecting the remote transmission nodes to ones of the input trunk interface means for the transmission of digital signals pertaining to individual calls in non-packet format, and wherein each of the input trunk interface means further comprises means addressed by relative addresses assigned to the individual calls and contained in the digital signals for storing addresses of ones of the output trunk interface means, means for accumulating a prescribed number of the digital signals for each call into individual data segments, means for appending a header to each segment to create a packet, each header including an address of an output trunk interface means taken from the storing means, means for transmitting the packets to the packet switch, and wherein the output trunk interface means comprises means for reformatting data received in the packets for output transmission in nonpacket format.
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