CONTROLLING MULTI-PORT HUNT GROUPS IN A DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SWITCHING SYSTEM

摘要

CONTROLLING MULTI-PORT HUNT GROUPS IN A DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SWITCHING SYSTEM A distributed control switching system where multi-port hunt groups are controlled by hunting for idle group members in a sequential fashion starting with the members on one of the switching modules of the system and continuing through a predetermined sequence of modules until an idle group member is found. The busy/idle hunt data is distributed across the modules so that each module maintains the hunt data for only the group members on that module. Therefore, no intermodule control communication is devoted to updating the hunt data of other modules.