Patent ID: 7620031

Claim:
A time division code switch, comprising: an input for accepting at least one code division modulated signal and including an input despreader to decode the at least one code division modulated signal into a plurality of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) beams; a code bus for delivering said plurality of CDMA beams to a plurality of user despreaders at the input; a time slot interchanger connected to the plurality of user despreaders to receive the CDMA beams that have been demodulated, the time slot interchanger re-arranging time slots of each frame to couple an input to a designated output; a respreading circuitry connected to the designated output of the time slot interchanger; a summer connected to the respreading circuitry to sum a plurality of spread signals having a common destination to form a beam directed to said destination; and an output for directing the beam to said destination.