Inventors:
Subhash C. Roy - Lexington MA
Michael M. Renault - Medway MA
Frederick R. Carter - Lawrence MA
David K. Toebes - Andover MA
Rajen S. Ramchandani - Clinton MA
Daniel C. Upp - Southbury CT
Assignee:
Transwitch Corporation - Shelton CT
International Classification:
H04L 1228
Abstract:
A network switch includes at least one port processor and at least one switch element. The port processor has an SONET OC-x interface (for TDM traffic), a UTOPIA interface (for ATM and packet traffic), and an interface to the switch element. In one embodiment, the port processor has a total I/O bandwidth equivalent to an OC-48, and the switch element has 12Ã12 ports for a total bandwidth of 30 Gbps. A typical switch includes multiple port processors and switch elements. A data frame of 9 rows by 1700 slots is used to transport ATM, TDM, and Packet data from a port processor through one or more switch elements to the same or another port processor. Each frame is transmitted in 125 microseconds; each row in 13. 89 microseconds. Each slot includes a 4-bit tag plus a 4-byte payload.