Patent ID: 8977780
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A network, of the type comprising: a plurality of pieces of electronic equipment subscribing to the network, and a plurality of network nodes, each subscribing piece of equipment being directly connected to a network node, the network nodes being connected to each other via annular direct connections so as to form a reference ring, according to which ring the network nodes are ordered by successive ranks, a node with rank R relative to a reference network node being connected to said reference network node via R successive annular direct connections, each network node being connected by an annular direct receiving connection to an upstream node and via an annular direct transmission connection to a downstream node, characterized in that the network is adapted to tolerate a number n of network node breakdowns, n being strictly greater than 1, each network node being connected by a direct receiving connection to all of the other network nodes placed, in the reference ring, up to: wherein the network is adapted to route frames from a transmitting subscribing piece of electronic equipment towards a receiving subscribing piece of electronic equipment, each transmitted frame having a frame number comprising a first sequence encoding functional content of the frame and a second sequence encoding a transmission order of the frame to allow the unique identification of each frame.