Patent ID: 8040878

Claim:
A switch for telecommunication networks, comprising: termination and adaptation function means handling incoming signals and interfacing different network layers; time division multiplexing matrix coupled to the termination and adaptation function means; the time division multiplexing matrix provided with a number of matrix inputs and a number of matrix outputs, the multiplexing matrix effecting switching of terminated and adapted signals for circuit switched network layers and packet switched network layers, and the multiplexing matrix configured for switching packets and time division multiplexing signals transparently at their own layers within the multiplexing matrix; source address generators, connected to matrix outputs of the time division multiplexing matrix; input modules, each of the input modules being configured to generate a fixed size block, the block comprising a number of packets, arranged according to a predefined order; matrix input processing modules, each of the matrix input processing modules connected to a respective input module to receive therefrom the fixed size block, and each of the matrix input processing modules further connected to a matrix input; and a dynamic provisioning module, which is configured to receive from the matrix input processing modules routing information comprised in the packets, that generates, according to the routing information, a dynamic routing table, and that supplies the dynamic routing table to the source address generators.