Patent ID: 6487198
Filing Date: 2002-11-26
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method of unloading one or more T1 payloads from a target ATM cell, wherein said target ATM cell has traveled over an ATM network, wherein the ATM network is emulating a T1 link, the method comprising the steps of:storing a plurality of ATM cells in a cell buffer at a first rate, wherein the first rate is an incoming cell rate; selecting an ATM cell at a bottom of the cell buffer as the target ATM cell; sending the one or more T1 payloads from the target ATM cell to an elastic store buffer, wherein each of the T1 payloads contains a plurality of timeslots; and sending the plurality of timeslots from the elastic store buffer to a switch matrix at a second rate, wherein the second rate is set by the switch matrix, wherein the first rate and the second rate are generally asynchronous.