Redundancy gateway system

A redundancy gateway system that includes a plurality of gateway units configured in a multiplex manner between a packet network and a TDM network, and which performs a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) conversion processing to a plurality of packets supplied from the packet network, by the gateway units, and supplies a resulting TDM signal to the TDM network, the redundancy gateway system comprising:

• a same packet supply unit that generates a duplicate of the packet and thus supplies packets of the same content to the plurality of gateway units;
• a common write pointer generating unit that generates, for each of the packets, a common write pointer corresponding to identification information appended to the packet;
• and
• a selective supply unit that selectively switches one of the plurality of gateway units and supplies only a TDM signal acquired from the one gateway unit to the TDM network;
• wherein each of the plurality of gateway units includes
• at least one jitter buffer,
• a unit that generates a read pointer for the jitter buffer, and
• a jitter buffer control unit that writes, for each supplied packet, the packet into the jitter buffer in accordance with the common write pointer corresponding to the packet, and sequentially reads out a written packet from the jitter buffer in accordance with the jitter buffer read pointer and provides it for the TDM conversion processing;
• further comprising a processing timing signal generating unit that generates a common processing timing signal with a predetermined cycle, wherein all the plurality of gateway units carry out writing and reading operations to and from their own jitter buffers that they have, synchronously with the common processing timing signal;
• wherein the common write pointer generating unit and the read pointer generating unit are provided in each of the plurality of gateway units;
• and
• wherein only one gateway unit corresponding to an operation command generates the write pointer and the read pointer and commonly supplies them to all the gateway units.

A redundancy gateway system which includes a plurality of gateway units configured in a multiplex manner between a plurality of packet networks configured in a multiplex manner and a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) network, and which performs TDM conversion processing to a plurality of packets supplied from the packet networks, by the gateway units, and supplies a resulting TDM signal to the TDM network, the redundancy gateway system comprising:

• a common write pointer generating unit that generates, for each of the packets, a common write pointer corresponding to identification information appended to the packet;
• and
• a selective supply unit that selectively switches one of the plurality of gateway units and supplies only a TDM signal acquired from the one gateway unit to the TDM network;
• wherein each of the plurality of gateway units includes
• at least one receiving buffer,
• at least one jitter buffer,
• a unit that generates a read pointer for the jitter buffer,
• a same packet supply unit that takes in a packet supplied only from one of the packet networks, duplicates this packet to generate a packet of a same content, and supplies it to another gateway unit different from a local gateway unit,
• a receiving buffer control unit that sequentially writes and reads both a packet taken in by the local gateway unit and a packet supplied from another gateway unit different from the local gateway unit into and from the receiving buffer,
• a valid packet supply unit that uses a packet read out first from the receiving buffer as a valid packet and discards a packet of the same content read out later in duplicate as an invalid packet, thereby supplying only the valid packet to the jitter buffer, and
• a jitter buffer control unit that writes, for each packet supplied by the valid packet supply unit, the packet into the jitter buffer in accordance with the common write pointer corresponding to the packet, and sequentially reads out a written packet from the jitter buffer in accordance with the jitter buffer read pointer and provides it for the TDM conversion processing.