Elastic store circuit for composite cells switched through an ATM network
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1. A method comprising the steps of:
- receiving from an ATM network a plurality of isochronous ATM composite cells;
grouping each isochronous ATM composite cell into its respective original transmitted frame;
said group using only a VCI from each isochronous ATM composite cell, respectively, without prior knowledge of such VCI or special frame markers;
removing any time jitter-and delay induced by passage through said ATM network from said data cell using FIFOs that may be continuously written;
assembling plurality of isochronous ATM composite cells into a corresponding STM frame of data.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for interfacing ATM network packet type communications to STM frame type communications. This method and apparatus is especially useful for interfacing isochronous ATM cells to STM frames. The apparatus concerns an elastic store which receives ATM cells and sorts them in a set of FIFOs into their respective frames. The FIFO storing and retrieval method removes jitter and delay. A controlled clock within the elastic store clocks reads the information out of the FIFOs and into a STM network.
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1. A method comprising the steps of:
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receiving from an ATM network a plurality of isochronous ATM composite cells; grouping each isochronous ATM composite cell into its respective original transmitted frame; said group using only a VCI from each isochronous ATM composite cell, respectively, without prior knowledge of such VCI or special frame markers; removing any time jitter-and delay induced by passage through said ATM network from said data cell using FIFOs that may be continuously written; assembling plurality of isochronous ATM composite cells into a corresponding STM frame of data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An apparatus for receiving ATM cells and outputting corresponding frames of data on an STM link, said apparatus comprising:
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a router for selecting a FIFO of N FIFOs into which data cells of a first ATM cell for a first frame of data are routed; said router keeps a modulo N count of each VCI of each ATM cell respectively as it is received; said count is used to route respective data cells from each ATM cell to select a respective FIFO of said N FIFOs for storage; a more significant digit of said count is associated with each VCI and stored in each respective FIFO; a controlled clock is connected to one of said N FIFO'"'"'s and is adjusted by a fill level thereof; and an output sequencer is connected to an output of each of said N FIFOs and reads data stored therein in sequence as controlled by the more significant digits associated therewith into a respective frame of data; and each frame of is read out using clock pulses from said controlled clock and outputted on said STM link. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
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