| 摘要 |
In a switch having two parallel planes (A, B) for providing redundancy, cells are received from the two planes in redundancy terminating unit comprising that first the cells are separated whether they are ordinary switched cells, called unicast cells, or cells which are switched or copied to a plurality of the outputs of the planes, these cells being called multicast cells. At each cell time a selection of one received cell is made by a selector control unit (3) and this selection is made substantially at random, among possible received unicast cells and a multicast cell as stored in a FIFO (35) having an output register (37). If received cells have different priorities the random selection is made among cells having the maximum priority of the priority of the received cells. A unicast cell which is not selected, is discarded but a non-selected multicast cell remains in the register until it is selected. This random plane selection is executed in a fast and simple way and give a very quick response to many faults in the switch core. |
