Communication network, more specifically a telephone network and data communication network composed of a set of nodes, in which specific facilities within optionally determined domains can be offered fully integrated.

摘要

The invention relates to a communication network, more specifically a telephone network and data communication network, composed of a set of nodes (KNE), interlinked by means of transmission lines through which TDM-transmission is possible. Each node (KNE) can act as an individual switching exchange and comprises its own control module (CM). To a user the network is manifested as a single system. The invention has for its object to be able to flexibly sub-divide such a system, allowing of being offered fully integrated specific facilities within the boundaries of domains that can be arbitrarily defined within the total network configuration. Thereto a communication network in accordance with the invention is characterized in that local data available in a node for a specific facility-bound program allowing of dictating the operation of a control module (CM), contain an adjustable address file having addresses of those nodes via which a call for a specific facility for which said program is projected can be accepted; in that nodes to which a same specific facility is extended and whose addresses are incorporated in the file of a specific node define a domain for such a node from where a relevant specific facility can be offered.