Transport network with high transmission capacity for telecommunications

A telecommunications network with a transmission capacity at nodes (1,1 to n,m) of the network are linked together transparently with one another by optical glass fiber lines functionally to produce a complete intermeshing of nodes (1,1 to n,m) that permits a simultaneous addressing of all the nodes (1,1 to n,m) by every other node in network comprising:

• (a) nodes (1,1 to n,m) are coupled with one another in a matrix arrangement in lines and columns;
• (b) each corner node (1,1;
• 1,m;
• n, 1, and n,m) has at least n connections in a column direction and has at least 2.multidot.m connections in a line direction:
• (c) intermediate nodes located in marginal lines (1,2 to 1,(m-1) and n,2 to n,(m-1)) have at least n connections in the column direction and have at least 2 m connections in line direction, and the intermediate nodes located in the marginal columns (2,1 to (n-1),1 and 2,m to (n-1),m)) have at least m connections in a line direction and have at least 2.multidot.n connections in the column direction;
• (d) inner nodes of the network are connected with each of four neighbors by a total of at least 2.multidot.m connections in the line direction and by at least 2.multidot.n connections in the column direction;
• (e) individual nodes are addressable by at least one line and/or one column;
• (f) a transmitting node addresses a receiving node first by emitting information through a fiber that is associated with a column of a receiver and second by a signal identifier that is associated with a line of the receiving node;
• (g) the receiver identifies a line in which a transmitter is located on the optical fiber through which the signal light flux is conducted to the receiver and the column of the receiving node from the signal identifier of the received light flux;
• (h) each node (n.multidot.m-1) has transmitters that are operable with corresponding signal identifiers and (n.multidot.m-1) receivers that respond to each of the m different identifiers that are associated with the nodes arranged in a line, characterized by the following features:
• each of the corner nodes (1,1;
• 1,m;
• n,1 and n,m) has at least 2.multidot.(n-1) connections in the column direction and at least 2.multidot.(m-1) connections in the line direction;
• the intermediate nodes (1,2;
• . . . ;1,j;
• . . . ;1,(m-1) and n,2;
• . . . ;n,j;
• . . . ;
• n,(m-1) with j=(2;3;
• . . . ;
• m-1)) located in marginal lines, have at least 2.multidot.(n-1) connections in the column direction and at least 2.multidot.(m-j).multidot.j+2.multidot.(m-j+1).multidot.(j-1) connections in a line direction, and the intermediate nodes located in the marginal columns (2,1;
• . . . ;i,1;
• . . . ;(m-1),1 and 2,m;
• . . . ;
• 1,j;
• . . . ;
• (n-1),m) with i=(2;3;
• . . . ;
• n-1)) have at least 2.multidot.(m-1) connections in the line direction and have at least 2.multidot.(n-i).multidot.i+2.multidot.(n-i+1).multidot.(i-1) connections in the column direction;
• and
• the inner nodes (i,j with i=(2;3;
• . . . ;n-1) and j=(2;3;
• . . . ;
• m-1)) of the network are connected with each four neighbors by a total of at least 2.multidot.(m-j).multidot.j+2.multidot.(m-j+1).multidot.(j-1) connections, in the line direction, and with at least 2.multidot.(n-i).multidot.i+2.multidot.(n-i+1).multidot.(i-1) connections, in the column direction.