US 4,731,782 AGranted

Digital local switching system for integrated service digital network

AssigneeNEC Corporation

InventorsTomoyoshi Shimizu, Yoshinori Yoshida, Masao Hashimoto, Hideki Nakane

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Abstract

An integrated service network ("ISDN") is structured to connect subscriber lines through a packet switching system to incoming or outgoing packet switching calls without passing them through a circuit switching system. This effectively uses the speech path of the circuit switching section instead of using it for packet switching calls. At the same time, the invention minimizes the influence of the introduction of the ISDN upon the software of the circuit switching section. The ISDN digital switching network applies to circuit switching calls which are switched at a local switch and to packet switching calls which are to be switched at a toll switch. The digital switching system separates calls into circuit switching calls which are transferred through B channels, packet switching calls which are transferred through B channels, and packet switching calls which are transferred through D channels in order to connect the circuit switching calls to a time division switch and the packet switching calls to a packet multiplexer. The packets are concentrated and multiplexed into separated packet switching calls. The circuit switching calls from the time division switch are multiplexed with the packet switching calls from the packed multiplexer and are placed in predetermined time slots in accordance with a band width designated corresponding to respective call traffic.

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A digital local telephone exchange system for accommodating a plurality of digital access lines, each of said access lines being ascribed to a basic access interface having two B channels for circuit switching calls and packet switching calls and one D channel for packed signalling information or data, said system comprising:

a plurality of line module means for separating said circuit switching calls and packet switching calls from said digital access lines;
each of said line module means including:
a plurality of line circuit means for separating said B channel circuit switching calls and packet switching calls and said D channel packeted signalling information or data;
digital line switch means for multiplexing circuit switching calls separated by each of said line circuit means;
line module packet multiplexer means;
line module controller means connected to said each line circuits for identifying said packeted signalling information or data on said D channel, for controlling calls by using said signalling information and for outputting said packeted data to said line module packet multiplexer;
and
said line module packet multplexer means multiplexing B channel packets from said line circuits and D channel packets from said line module controller;
system packet multiplexer means for multiplexing said B channel packets from each of said line module packet multiplexer;
time division switch means for connecting circuit switching calls from said line module means;
and
digital cross-connect module means having a plurality of circuit-packet multiplexer means corresonding to a toll connecting trunk, each of circuit-packet multiplexer means receiving input circuit switching calls from said time division switch means and packet switching calls from said system packet multiplexer means for mutliplexing these calls to said toll connecting trunk.

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