| 摘要 |
<p>Traffic is transported within a system in the form of time-division-multiplexed packets. These packets are generated at source line units and transported from the line units to a switch. The switch (115) routes the packets to appropriate target line units (50) based on information contained within the packet. At the switch, packets from the source line units may be merged. A gather function relies on each of the line units sourcing packets to exclusively drive lines at software-assigned timeslots within the packet. The switch performs a logical bit-wise OR function of each byte in merging the packet payloads.</p> |
