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

Claim 14:
15. The specialized node of claim 14, wherein the specialized node is configurable to be either one of the ingress node, the egress node, or an intermediate node along the path through the switch fabric, wherein:
the ingress node is configured to fill a first subset of time slots of the TDM flow with TDM packets corresponding to a first subset of one or more incoming flows;
the intermediate node is configured to convert a second subset of one or more incoming flows into TDM packets for inclusion in a second subset of available time slots of the TDM flow; and
the egress node is configured to generate outgoing flows from the TDM packets for the first and second subsets of incoming flows.