| 摘要 |
The invention relates to packet transfer in a packet-switched telecommunications network in which packets are transferred by means of routers. The data packets to be transferred are segmented into lower protocol layer data units that are transferred from router to router in the network. To accelerate the packet transfer in as simple a manner as possible, (a) on the basis of the incoming data units (50), the occurrence of the limit between two successive data packets (30) is monitored, (b) upon detection of the start of a data packet, the destination address of the data packet is read from a data unit, (c) the output port associated with the destination address is sought for an individual data unit and the data unit is routed to that output port, and (d) all other data units that have the same connection identifier as said data unit are routed directly on the basis of the connection identifier included in them as long as the content of said data units indicates that the data packet is still in progress. |
