Inter digital switching equipment relay system and digital switching equipment

Claim 2

An inter digital switching equipment relay system, having a plurality of digital switching equipments connected each other through a trunk line, for transferring a block of digital data containing an item of destination data from said one digital switching equipment to said other digital switching equipment via said trunk line, said relay system comprising: a backup trunk line arranged in parallel to said trunk line between said plurality of digital switching equipments and having substantially the same capacity as that of said trunk line; and transferring means, provided in said one digital switching equipment, for transferring, in case a data quantity of the block of the digital data passing though said trunk line becomes a fixed threshold value or larger, part of the block of the digital data passing through said trunk line to said other digital switching equipment via said backup trunk line.

Claim 3

An inter ATM switching equipment relay system, having a plurality of ATM switiching equipments connected each other through a trunk line, for transferring an ATM cell from said one ATM switching equipment to said other ATM switching equipment via said trunk line, said relay system comprising: a backup trunk line arranged in parallel to said trunk line between said plurality of ATM switching equipments and having substantially the same capacity as that of said trunk line; and transferring means, provided in said one ATM switiching equipment, for transferring, in case the number of ATM cells passing through said trunk line becomes a fixed threshold vlaue or larger, part of the ATM cells passing through said trunk line to said other ATM switching equipment via said backup trunk line.

Claim 4

An inter ATM switching equipment relay system, having a plurality of ATM switiching equipments connected each other through a trunk line, for transferring an ATM cell from said one ATM switching equipment to said other ATM switching equipment via said trunk line, said relay system comprising: a backup trunk line arranged in parallel to said trunk line between said plurality of ATM switching equipments and having substantially the same capacity as that of said trunk line; and transferring means, provided in said one ATM switiching equipment, for transferring, in case the number of ATM cells passing through said trunk line becomes a fixed threshold vlaue or larger, part of the ATM cells passing through said trunk line to said other ATM switching equipment via said backup trunk line.

Claim 5

An inter ATM switching equipment relay system according to claim 2, further comprising: maintenance OAM cell transmitting means, provided in said one ATM switching equipment, for transmitting, in case the number of ATM cells transmitted to said trunk line in said one ATM switching equipment becomes the fixed threshold value or larger, a maintenance OAM cell for notifying that the ATM cells are transmitted via said backup trunk line to said other ATM switching equipment.

Claim 6

An inter ATM switching equipment relay system according to claim 3, wherein said transferring means transfers, in case said other ATM switching equipment receiving the maintenance OAM cell sends back a maintenance OAM cell for a response to said one ATM switching equipment, part of the ATM cells passing through said trunk line to said other ATM switching equipment via said backup trunk line.

Claim 7

A digital switching equipment connectable via a trunk line to other switching equipment and capable of transferring a block of digital data containing an item of destination data to said other switching equipment via said trunk line, said digital switching equipment comprising: a first trunk unit transmitting the block of the digital data to said trunk line; a second trunk unit, to which a backup trunk line having substantially the same capacity as that of said trunk line is connectable, capable of transferring the block of the digital data to said backup trunk line; a switch unit transmitting the block of digital data to said first trunk unit; and transmitting means for transmitting, in case a data quantity of the block of the digital data passing through said first trunk unit exceeds a fixed threshold value, a part of the block of the digital data to be transmitted to said first trunk unit from said switch unit to said second trunk unit.

Claim 8

A digital switching equipment connectable via a trunk line to other switching equipment and capable of transferring a block of digital data containing an item of destination data to said other switching equipment via said trunk line, said digital switching equipment comprising: a first trunk unit transmitting the block of the digital data to said trunk line; a second trunk unit, to which a backup trunk line having substantially the same capacity as that of said trunk line is connectable, capable of transferring the block of the digital data to said backup trunk line; a switch unit transmitting the block of digital data to said first trunk unit; and transmitting means for transmitting, in case a data quantity of the block of the digital data passing through said first trunk unit exceeds a fixed threshold value, a part of the block of the digital data to be transmitted to said first trunk unit from said switch unit to said second trunk unit.

Claim 9

A digital switching equipment according to claim 5, further comprising: monitoring means for monitoring a data quantity of the block of the digital data outputted from said first trunk unit; and wherein said transmitting means transmits, in case said monitoring means determines that the data quantity of the block of the digital data exceeds the fixed threshold, the part of the block of the digital data to be transmitted to said first trunk unit from said switch unit to said second trunk unit.

Claim 10

A digital switching equipment connectable via a trunk line to other switching equipment and capable of transferring an ATM cell to said other switching equipment via said trunk line, said digital switching equipment comprising: a first trunk unit transmitting the ATM cell to said trunk line; a second trunk unit, to which a backup trunk line having substantially the same capacity as that of said trunk line is connectable, capable of transferring the ATM cell to said backup trunk line; a switch unit transmitting the ATM cell to said first trunk unit; and transmitting means for transmitting, in case the number of ATM cells passing through said first trunk unit exceeds a fixed threshold value, a part of the ATM cells to be transmitted to said first trunk unit from said switch unit to said second trunk unit.

Claim 11

A digital switching equipment connectable via a trunk line to other switching equipment and capable of transferring an ATM cell to said other switching equipment via said trunk line, said digital switching equipment comprising: a first trunk unit transmitting the ATM cell to said trunk line; a second trunk unit, to which a backup trunk line having substantially the same capacity as that of said trunk line is connectable, capable of transferring the ATM cell to said backup trunk line; a switch unit transmitting the ATM cell to said first trunk unit; and transmitting means for transmitting, in case the number of ATM cells passing through said first trunk unit exceeds a fixed threshold value, a part of the ATM cells to be transmitted to said first trunk unit from said switch unit to said second trunk unit.

Claim 12

A digital switching equipment according to claim 7, further comprising: monitoring means for monitoring the number of ATM cells outputted from said first trunk unit; and wherein said transmitting means transmits, in case said monitoring means determines that the number of ATM cells exceeds the fixed threshold, the part of the ATM cells to be transmitted to said first trunk unit from said switch unit to said second trunk unit.

Claim 13

An ATM switching equipment according to claim 8, wherein said monitoring means counts the number of ATM cells on the basis of a usage of a buffer provided in said trunk unit.

Claim 14

An ATM switching equipment according to claim 9, wherein said buffer has a first threshold value that is comparatively large and a second threshold value that is comparatively small, and said transmitting means transmits, in case the number of ATM cells exceeds the first threshold value, the part of the ATM cells to be transmitted to said first trunk unit from said switch unit to said second trunk unit, and transmits, in case the number of ATM cells is the second threshold value or under, the ATM cells transmitted to said second trunk unit back to said first trunk unit.

Claim 15

A digital switching equipment, to which a plurality of lines are connected, for receiving a block of digital data containing an item of destination data from an input line and outputting the data block to an output line, said digital switching equipment comprising: a detection unit detecting that a data quantity of the block of the digital data passing through said output line exceeds a fixed threshold value; and notifying means for notifying, in case said detecting unit detects that the data quantity of the block of the digital data passing through said output line exceeds the fixed threshold value, an occurrence of congestion to a transmitting party of the block of the digital data.

Claim 16

A digital switching equipment, to which a plurality of lines are connected, for receiving a block of digital data containing an item of destination data from an input line and outputting the data block to an output line, said digital switching equipment comprising: a detection unit detecting that a data quantity of the block of the digital data passing through said output line exceeds a fixed threshold value; and notifying means for notifying, in case said detecting unit detects that the data quantity of the block of the digital data passing through said output line exceeds the fixed threshold value, an occurrence of congestion to a transmitting party of the block of the digital data.

Claim 17

A digital switching equipment according to claim 11, further comprising: an input trunk unit accommodating said input line; an output trunk unit accommodating said output line; and a switch unit, connected to said input trunk unit and said output trunk unit, selectively transferring the block of the digital data by connecting or disconnecting said respective trunk units from each other.

Claim 18

A digital switching equipment according to claim 12, wherein said detection unit detects a data quantity of the block of the digital data passing through within said output line.

Claim 19

A digital switching equipment according to claim 12, wherein said notifying means is provided in said input trunk unit and writes an occurrence data about a state of congestion to the block of the digital data transmitted toward a transmitting party of the block of the digital data from said input trunk unit.

Claim 20

A digital switching equipment according to claim 12, wherein said notifying means is provided in said output trunk unit and writes an occurrence data about the state of congestion to the block of the digital data transmitted toward the transmitting party of the block of the digital data via said switch unit and said input trunk unit from said input trunk unit.

Claim 21

A digital switching equipment according to claim 14, wherein said notifying means generates the block of the digital data , to which the occurrence data about the state of congestion is written.

Claim 22

An ATM switching equipment, to which a plurality of lines are connected, for receiving an ATM cell from an input line and outputting the ATM cell to and output line, said ATM switching equipment comprising: an input trunk unit accommodating said input line; an output trunk unit accommodating said output line; a switch unit, connected to said input trunk unit and said output trunk unit, selectively transferring the ATM cell by connecting or disconnecting said respective trunk units from each other; a detection unit detecting that the number of ATM cells passing through said output trunk unit exceeds a fixed threshold value; and notifying means for notifying, in case said detection unit detects that the number of ATM cells passing through said output trunk unit exceeds the fixed threshold value, an occurrence of congestion to a transmitting party of the ATM cell via said input line.

Claim 23

An ATM switching equipment, to which a plurality of lines are connected, for receiving an ATM cell from an input line and outputting the ATM cell to and output line, said ATM switching equipment comprising: an input trunk unit accommodating said input line; an output trunk unit accommodating said output line; a switch unit, connected to said input trunk unit and said output trunk unit, selectively transferring the ATM cell by connecting or disconnecting said respective trunk units from each other; a detection unit detecting that the number of ATM cells passing through said output trunk unit exceeds a fixed threshold value; and notifying means for notifying, in case said detection unit detects that the number of ATM cells passing through said output trunk unit exceeds the fixed threshold value, an occurrence of congestion to a transmitting party of the ATM cell via said input line.

Claim 24

An ATM switching equipment according to claim 17, wherein said detection unit includes a buffer to which the ATM cell transferred from said switch unit is temporarily written and from which the ATM cell is read for outputting to said output line, and wherein said detection unit detects, in case the number of the unread ATM cells accumulated in said buffer reaches a fixed threshold value, that the number of ATM cell passing through said output trunk unit exceeds a fixed threshold value.

Claim 25

An ATM switching equipment according to claim 17, wherein said notifying means writes an occurrence data about the state of congestion to the ATM cell sent to the transmitting party of the ATM cell passing through said input trunk unit from said output trunk unit.

Claim 26

An ATM switching equipment according to claim 19, wherein the ATM cell to which the occurrence data about the state of congestion is written is an ATM-OAM cell generated within said ATM switching equipment.

Claim 27

An inter ATM switching equipment relay system, having at least two sets of ATM switching equipments connected through a trunk line, for inputting an ATM cell from an input line of said first ATM switching equipment, transferring the ATM cell to said second ATM switching equipment via said trunk line and outputting the ATM cell from an output line of said second ATM switching equipment, said relay system comprising: a backup trunk line arranged in parallel to said trunk line between said two sets of ATM switching equipments and having substantially the same capacity as that of said trunk line; copying means, provided in said first ATM switching equipment, for copying the ATM cell; transmitting means, provided in said first ATM switching equipment, for transmitting one of the copied ATM cells to said trunk line and also transmitting one other copied ATM cell to said backup trunk line; outputting means, provided in said second digital switching equipment, for outputting, in a state where no fault happens in said trunk line, only the ATM cell transferred via said trunk line and outputting, in a state where the fault happens in said trunk line, only the ATM cell transferred via said backup trunk line from said backup line from said output line; said transmitting means copies only some preselected cells: and said outputting means outputs, from said output line, the ATM cells exclusive of said preselected ATM cells transferred from said trunk line even in case the fault happens in said trunk line.

Claim 28

An inter ATM switching equipment relay system, having at least two sets of ATM switching equipments connected through a trunk line, for inputting an ATM cell from an input line of said first ATM switching equipment, transferring the ATM cell to said second ATM switching equipment via said trunk line and outputting the ATM cell from an output line of said second ATM switching equipment, said relay system comprising: a backup trunk line arranged in parallel to said trunk line between said two sets of ATM switching equipments and having substantially the same capacity as that of said trunk line; copying means, provided in said first ATM switching equipment, for copying the ATM cell; transmitting means, provided in said first ATM switching equipment, for transmitting one of the copied ATM cells to said trunk line and also transmitting one other copied ATM cell to said backup trunk line; outputting means, provided in said second digital switching equipment, for outputting, in a state where no fault happens in said trunk line, only the ATM cell transferred via said trunk line and outputting, in a state where the fault happens in said trunk line, only the ATM cell transferred via said backup trunk line from said backup line from said output line; said transmitting means copies only some preselected cells: and said outputting means outputs, from said output line, the ATM cells exclusive of said preselected ATM cells transferred from said trunk line even in case the fault happens in said trunk line.

Claim 29

An inter ATM switching equipment relay system having at least two sets of ATM switching equipments connected through a trunk line, for inputting an ATM cell from an input line of said first ATM switching equipment, transferring the ATM cell to said second ATM switching equipment via said trunk line and outputting the ATM cell from an output line of said second ATM switching equipment, said relay system comprising: a backup trunk line arranged in parallel to said trunk line between said two sets of ATM switching equipments and having substantially the same capacity as that of said trunk line; outputting means, provided in said second ATM switching equipment, for outputting, to said output line, the ATM cell transferred via said trunk line and the ATM cell transferred via said backup trunk line within said second ATM switching equipment; and transferring means, provided in said first ATM switching equipment, for transferring, in a state where no fault happens in said trunk line, the ATM cell transferred via said input line only to said trunk line and transferring, in a state where the fault happens in said trunk line, the ATM cell transferred via said input line to only said backup trunk line; wherein said outputting means outputs some preselected ATM cells from said output line even in the case of being transferred via said backup trunk line; and said transferring means transfers the ATM cells exclusive of said some preselected ATM cells to only said trunk line even in case the fault happens in said trunk line.

Claim 30

An inter ATM switching equipment relay system having at least two sets of ATM switching equipments connected through a trunk line, for inputting an ATM cell from an input line of said first ATM switching equipment, transferring the ATM cell to said second ATM switching equipment via said trunk line and outputting the ATM cell from an output line of said second ATM switching equipment, said relay system comprising: a backup trunk line arranged in parallel to said trunk line between said two sets of ATM switching equipments and having substantially the same capacity as that of said trunk line; outputting means, provided in said second ATM switching equipment, for outputting, to said output line, the ATM cell transferred via said trunk line and the ATM cell transferred via said backup trunk line within said second ATM switching equipment; and transferring means, provided in said first ATM switching equipment, for transferring, in a state where no fault happens in said trunk line, the ATM cell transferred via said input line only to said trunk line and transferring, in a state where the fault happens in said trunk line, the ATM cell transferred via said input line to only said backup trunk line; wherein said outputting means outputs some preselected ATM cells from said output line even in the case of being transferred via said backup trunk line; and said transferring means transfers the ATM cells exclusive of said some preselected ATM cells to only said trunk line even in case the fault happens in said trunk line.