Inventors:
Alan Huang - Middletown NJ
Scott C. Knauer - Mountainside NJ
Jay H. O'Neill - Freehold NJ
Charles W. Rutledge - Whitehouse NJ
Sheng L. Lin - Lisle IL
Maurice N. Ransom - Plainfield IL
Ronald A. Spanke - Wheaton IL
Assignee:
American Telephone and Telegraph Company - Murray Hill NJ
AT&T Bell Laboratories - Murray Hill NJ
International Classification:
H04J 326
Abstract:
A packet switching network that accommodates the appearance of multiple occurrences of packets addressed to the same destination are accommodated. The network includes a recirculating delay block within the switch, and an expander that includes a modest number of multiple appearances of the same address, followed by memories that accept the packets delivered at those multiple appearances, store the packets, and output the stored packets to the user, one at a time, in accordance with a set priority scheme.