Patent ID: 8000356

Claim:
A telecommunication network, comprising: a first subnetwork; a plurality of nodes in the first subnetwork; a plurality of physically separate intersubnetwork connections for connection of the first subnetwork with a second subnetwork, each one of the plurality of physically separate intersubnetwork connections having a first subnetwork side and second subnetwork side; a plurality of inverse demultiplexers, wherein each one of the plurality of inverse demultiplexers has an output connected with a respective node of the plurality of nodes, each one of the plurality of inverse demultiplexers being arranged for receiving a plurality of inverse multiplex data signals, recovering an original signal, transmitted from the second subnetwork, from the plurality of inverse multiplex data signals and presenting the recovered original signal to the respective node of the receiving one of the plurality of inverse demultiplexers; and a plurality of system demultiplexers, each one of the plurality of system demultiplexers being connected between an input of each one of the plurality of inverse demultiplexers and at least one of the physically separate intersubnetwork connections, wherein each one of the plurality of system demultiplexers is connected with a different one of the plurality of physically separate intersubnetwork connections, and the plurality of system demultiplexers are arranged for receiving the plurality of inverse multiplex data signals from the second subnetwork, wherein each one of the plurality of inverse multiplex data signals for a same one of the plurality of inverse demultiplexers are each received over a different one of the plurality of physically separate intersubnetwork connections; wherein each one of the plurality of system demultiplexers has a plurality of connections to transmit inverse multiplex data signals to each one of the plurality of inverse demultiplexers.