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Packet-based telecommunications network

  • US 5,610,904 A
  • Filed: 03/28/1995
  • Issued: 03/11/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A packet-based telecommunications network comprising:

  • a plurality of packet switches;

    a plurality of simplex communication links that connect said packet switches in a plurality of different elemental networks, each different elemental network providing access to a destination from a subset of said plurality of packet switches, each different elemental network having the topology of a sink tree with a root, and such that at least one of said packet switches is the root for at least two of said different elemental networks; and

    a network controller for managing the flow of packets through said packet-based telecommunications network by changing the number of different elemental networks.

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