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Sonet overhead server

  • US 5,365,518 A
  • Filed: 03/02/1992
  • Issued: 11/15/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/02/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A network element, comprising:

  • a cross-connect, responsive to a plurality of input signals in an electrical transport format for use in the network element, the input signals comprising both overhead and data signals organized in frames having a plurality of rows and columns of bytes, for cross-connecting the input data and overhead signals and for providing the cross-connected input data and overhead signals in the electrical transport format; and

    plural servers, each responsive to different cross-connected input data and overhead signals from the cross-connect in the electrical transport format, for selectively input data and overhead signals and responsive to output data and overhead signals from user interfaces, for providing the output data and overhead signals in the electrical transport format, and wherein the cross-connect is responsive to the output data and overhead signals in the electrical transport format for cross-connecting and providing same as cross-connected output signals in the electrical transport format.

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