CS-534: Packet Switch Architecture
Spring 2003
Department of Computer Science
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1.2   Digital Telephony, TDM, Circuit Switching

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Reading Assignment:
Read section 8.2 (Circuit Switching), pp. 162-175, from the book:
S. Keshav: "An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking", Addison Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0-201-63442-2.

Sampling rate, frames, multiplexing, demultiplexing

Time-Division Switching - Time Slot Interchange

Add/Drop Multiplexor: a simple, 3-port switch

Space switching

Crossbar switch

Space-Division Switching, Crossbar, TST switch
Reference:
For additional discussion and bibliographic references regarding TST switch scheduling, see exercise set 2.

Multi-stage switches, TSSST, inverse multiplexing


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