COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND EXCHANGE PLATE FOR UNIFORM EXCHANGES FOR VARIOUS SERVICES

摘要

A communication apparatus, a method and a switch board for universal switching of multiple services. The communication apparatus includes a backplane board, a switch board, and a plurality of service boards. The switch board and the service boards are inserted into a switch board slot and a plurality of service board slots on the backplane board respectively. Only one set of service buses is provided on the backplane board. The switch board includes a plurality of switching modules associated with the services and adapted to schedule and switch the services. The communication apparatus further includes a selector adapted to connect the service buses to respective switching modules associated with the services according to types of the services. The method includes: connecting, by a selector, service buses with respective switching modules associated with the services according to types of the services; scheduling and switching the services by the switching modules. With the present invention, universal switching of multiple services may be achieved with low cost.