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Expandable telecommunications system

  • US 5,544,163 A
  • Filed: 03/08/1994
  • Issued: 08/06/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/08/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An expandable telecommunications system comprising:

  • a plurality of telecommunications switching means for dynamically connecting or disconnecting communication paths with respect to various ones of a plurality of ports, each of said telecommunications switching means including means for time switching information to or from said ports, each of said time switching means having a switching capacity corresponding to a maximum number of ports that may be physically associated therewith, and means for transmitting and receiving information in packetized form, and means connected in communicating relationship with said time switching means for interfacing with one or more public or private networks which represent said ports, said communicating relationship including a bus for carrying data to and from said ports; and

    means for interconnecting said plurality of telecommunications switching means in communicating relationship and operable in conjunction with said transmitting and receiving means to transfer said packetized information among said telecommunications switching means such that information, including circuit switched data, which originates from any port of any of said telecommunications switching means is substantially continuously communicable to any other port of the same or different telecommunications switching means.

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