Patent ID: 7961649

Claim:
A circulating switch comprising: one temporal cyclical rotator having a plurality of inlets and a plurality of outlets, a plurality of switch modules communicatively connected to said plurality of inlets and said plurality of outlets, each switch Module receiving data from a respective plurality of data sources and arranging received data into data segments; a plurality of module controllers, each module controller of said plurality of module controllers dedicated to a particular switch module of said plurality of switch modules; and a master controller communicatively connected to said each module controller of said plurality of module controllers; wherein said temporal cyclic rotator connects said each switch module to each other switch module during a rotation cycle comprising a plurality of rotation phases by cyclically connecting individual inlets among said plurality of inlets to individual outlets among said plurality of outlets; wherein during a specific rotation phase among said plurality of rotation phases, said each switch module is connected through said temporal cyclic rotator to a respective switch module determined according to a predefined rotation configuration; wherein said master controller indicates to said each module controller a schedule according to which said particular switch module transmits data to other switch modules of said plurality of switch modules.