Patent ID: 7215666
Filing Date: 2007-05-08
Classification: H04Q

Abstract:
1. A burst-switching network comprising: a plurality of source nodes; a plurality of upstream links coupled to said plurality of source nodes; a plurality of sink nodes; a plurality of downstream links coupled to said plurality of sink nodes; a plurality of core nodes, at least one of said plurality of core nodes is coupled to a subset of said plurality of upstream links and a subset of said plurality of downstream links and has a plurality of space switches, each space switch having a slave controller; and a plurality of master controllers in each core node, one said master controller associated with each of said plurality of space switches in each of said plurality of core nodes and a designated one of said master controllers in a core node functions as a core-node controller, said core-node controller communicatively connecting to each of said master controllers, said core-node controller operable to: