SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING COMBINED TDM AND PACKET SWITCHING IN A TDM CROSS CONNECT

摘要

An architecture and method for enhancing a TDM cross-connect (124) to perform packet switching (112, 114). In particular, a method and architecture that adds to an existing TDM switch (100) at least two packet switching line cards (102) that perform all packet-processing tasks includind filtering, shaping and policing, forwarding and scheduling, while utilizing the TDM cross-connect (124) existing infrastructure.