METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR SATELLITE-SWITCHED TIME- DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS

摘要

A method of and apparatus for satellite-switched timedivision multiple access particularly suited to the switching of low volume traffic flows. Samples of incoming PCM data streams are reorganized at the input of a TDMA terminal input so as to organize low traffic flows into individual frame units within superframes, the addressing of the switching matrix in the satellite being altered so as to achieve appropriate routing of the frame units. The frame units are reorganized at the output of the TDMA terminal so as to provide a conventionally organized outgoing PCM data stream. The reorganization functions also include provisions for the transmission and recovery of superframe synchronizing information.