Optical flow e.g. audio data traffic flow, aggregating device for e.g. Internet, has control unit to exchange requests with optical units to provide emission authorizations to them to ensure synchronization of optical units with device

摘要

The device has a mixing unit (OM) to mix optical flow according to its destination, and a control unit (DC) to manage the operation of different components of the device. The unit (DC) exchanges requests with optical units (OU1-OU6) to provide the emission authorizations to the optical units in direction of the device at a given instant according to the chronology of the requests, to ensure the synchronization of the optical units with the device. Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) an optical flow diffusion device (2) a method for aggregating the optical flow (3) a method for focusing the optical flow (4) a method for diffusing the optical flow (5) an optical flow aggregation/diffusion system including an optical flow aggregation device and an optical flow diffusion device.