Method for linking units with standardized interfaces to devices of a network system

• US 7,272,154 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2001
• Issued: 09/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Company KG (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Loebig, Norbert
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan; Wing Fu
• Assistant Examiner(s): Burrowes; Lawrence J
• Application Number:
  US10/182,117
• Publication Number:
  US 20050117563A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,428 Days
• Field of Search: 370/468, 370/229, 370/434, 370/217, 370/389, 370/412, 370/388, 370/420, 370/240, 370/218
• US Class Current: 370/468
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0062 Provisions for network management

Abstract

Commercially available platforms with performance characteristics are linked with network systems via standardized interfaces. Such a link, however, requires major interventions in the structure of said system. The inventive method reduces the necessary steps by means of a message-based concentration on the network bandwidth or a multiple thereof and a line-based concentration on the bandwidth of one of the peripherals during communication, thereby scheduling at least one interface of the allocated control device.

Claims

1. A method for communication between devices of a network system and control devices allocated thereto, comprising:

during communication, terminating at least one interface of the allocated control devices as a result of a message-based concentration on a network bandwidth and a line-based concentration on a bandwidth of at least one peripheral device, wherein

a data channel is switched through a system-internal nailed-up connection during system run-up prior to the release of switching.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control devices allocated to the network system are linked to the network system by means of standardized interfaces including one of an Ethernet, ATM, PCM or SDH interface.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein physical characteristics of the link remain concealed from applications running in the devices of the network system and in the control device through introduction of a specific transport layer with invariant application interface.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the message-based concentration is performed via an internal message distribution system of a switching center on a plurality of the peripheral devices with protocol terminating capacity.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the line-based concentration is performed via switching through data channels of a plurality of peripheral devices with protocol terminating capacity on at least one peripheral device having a physical interface to the control device.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the communication takes places via a fixed allocated peripheral device with protocol terminating capacity or dynamic allocation according to availability or load.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a standardized interface to the control device is defined as a PCM interface with 64 kbit/s channels that are protected by means of the HDLC or LAPD protocol.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a standardized interface to the control device is defined as an Ethernet interface with TCP/IP protocol.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the peripheral devices, the peripheral devices with protocol terminating capacity and the peripheral devices having a physical interface coincide in any combination with respect to the HW.

10. A method for communication between devices of a network system and control devices allocated thereto, comprising:

during communication, terminating at least one interface of the allocated control devices as a result of a message-based concentration on a network bandwidth and a line-based concentration on a bandwidth of at least one peripheral device, wherein

the line-based concentration is performed via switching through data channels of a plurality of peripheral devices with protocol terminating capacity on at least one peripheral device having a physical interface to the control device, and

the peripheral device having the physical interface to the control device are of duplicate design, or a plurality of interfaces of the control device are connected to different, non-redundant peripheral devices having a physical interface.

11. A method for communication between devices of a network system and control devices allocated thereto, comprising:

during communication, terminating at least one interface of the allocated control devices as a result of a message-based concentration on a network bandwidth and a line-based concentration on a bandwidth of at least one peripheral device, wherein the load distribution is performed in a direction of the control device by the network system and in an opposite direction by the control device.

12. A method for communication between devices of a network system and control devices allocated thereto, comprising:

during communication, terminating at least one interface of the allocated control devices as a result of a message-based concentration on a network bandwidth and a line-based concentration on a bandwidth of at least one peripheral device, wherein a plurality of control devices controllable in logically different operating modes are configured to be linked to the same network system with different physical interfaces.

13. A method for communication between devices of a network system and control devices allocated thereto, comprising:

during communication, terminating at least one interface of the allocated control devices as a result of a message-based concentration on a network bandwidth and a line-based concentration on a bandwidth of at least one peripheral device, wherein the peripheral devices with protocol terminating capacity and the peripheral devices having a physical interface generally coincide and the line-based concentration is dispensed.