Patent ID: 7660308

Claim:
A transmission apparatus for cross-connecting signals, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of address information storage sections to store a plurality of pieces of address information each of which indicates a destination of a signal and includes activation information indicating an activated or deactivated state of the address information as determined by redundancy setting information; an activation information setting section to change the activation information included in the address information stored in the address information storage sections when failure occurs; a bus; a plurality of address information insertion sections, coupled to the bus and the address information storage sections, to insert the address information stored in the corresponding address information storage sections into each received signal and output resulting signals containing the address information to the bus; and a plurality of signal output sections, coupled to the bus, to receive the signals address thereto output the signals to a next stage if the activation information included in the address information of the received signals indicates an activated state of that address information.