Patent ID: 11962515
Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. The communication network of claim 1, wherein:
a third of the specialized nodes is capable of operating as an ingress node to convert one or more incoming data flows into a second packetized, TDM data flow;
the switch fabric is configurable to route the second packetized, TDM data flow via a same second selected path through the switch fabric in a contention-free manner to a fourth of the specialized nodes; and
the fourth of the specialized nodes is capable of operating as an egress node of the second packetized, TDM data flow received from the packet switch fabric to convert the received second packetized, TDM data flow into one or more outgoing data flows.