INTELLIGENT, HIGH-SPEED SWITCHING MATRIX

摘要

A switching system and a method for performing high-speed switching within a telecommunication system. One aspect of the present invention utilizes an internal host (390) and a self learning routing algorithm to reduce the time required to identify an output channel for routing a communication. Another aspect of the present invention is the use of a hashing algorithm (395) in resolving routing decisions. The hashing algorithm (395) operates on received DID numbers to identify an output channel for a received call. Therefore, this aspect of the present invention allows a switching system (100) to perform true, ten digit portability of DID numbers. Another aspect of the present invention is buffering the data between various components of the telecommunications system to eliminate problems due to skew between the transmission clocks of the various components.