A growable ATM switching fabric architecture

Author

Jajszczyk, A. ; Kabacinski, W.

Author_Institution

Franco-Polish Sch. of New Inf. & Commun. Technol., Poznan, Poland

Volume

43

Issue

38020

fYear

1995

Firstpage

1155

Lastpage

1162

Abstract

A growable ATM or fast packet switching fabric architecture is proposed. The fabric has a two-sided structure and allows for the modular growth of its size from small to very large number of ports. The fabric is expanded by connecting additional basic fabrics to the existing structure by some interconnecting modules. The expansion process does not disturb the existing cabling. The architecture makes it also possible to adjust the system throughput. The hardware complexity of the new fabric is moderate and is discussed in the paper. Some important implementation issues such as the physical design and reliability are also presented in the paper.<>

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; channel capacity; modules; network topology; packet switching; telecommunication network reliability; expansion process; fast packet switching; growable ATM switching fabric architecture; hardware complexity; interconnecting module; modular growth; physical design; reliability; throughput; two-sided structure; Asynchronous transfer mode; Fabrics; Hardware; Joining processes; Packet switching; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/26.380147

Filename

380147