Patent ID: 6954426

Claim:
Method for routing in an ATM network ( 1 ) comprising a plurality of nodes ( 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 ) connected to each other via links ( 110 - 117 ), a network management centre ( 2 ) being connected to said ATM network ( 1 ), in which method an ATM call is routed from an originating node to a terminal node, characterised in that optimisation information is defined in a centralised manner in the network management centre ( 2 ); the optimisation information is so defined that a sum of rejected capacity for each connection does not exceed a predetermined limit; the optimisation information is transferred to the nodes ( 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 ); and the ATM call is routed in the originating node using the optimisation information and local status information.