A NEW HIGH-SPEED SWITCH FOR COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

The existing telecommunication networks, whether circuit switched or packet switched, are oriented towards particular applications e.g. Voice has Telephone Networks, Video has CATV, and Data Applications has Arpanet, Bitnet, Sitanet etc. All of these networks operate in parallel and independently. Each of these networks are suitable for the application for which they are designed, they are not very efficient for supporting other applications. New applications are inevitable but the existing and planned networks are unlikely to be able to accommodate them. High speed switching that provide basic communication capabilities in an application-independent fashion is required and proposed. In this paper we present a new switch architecture whose speed is clock rate dependent. The switch has less stages and provides a pipeline activity which makes it nonblocking. These features makes it highly attractive for use in real-time traffic environment.