Patent ID: 6888825

Claim:
A cross-connect comprising: a plurality of sets of data input lines, each of said sets of data input lines to be coupled to a different line card and the data input lines of each of said sets of data input lines have an order according to a bit position; and a plurality of matrixes each coupled to every of said set of data input lines and each having a set of data output lines, the set of data output lines of each of said plurality of matrices to be coupled to a different one of said line cards, wherein for each of said plurality of matrices, a plurality of sets of control lines, each matrix entry in a row of the matrix coupled to the same one of said sets of control lines and each matrix entry in a column of the matrix coupled to the same bit position data input line of each of said different line cards to selectively store in any given row of the matrix the data on one of said sets of data input lines; and the matrix entries of a column are coupled in series to selectively move the data on a row-by-row basis.