COMMUNICATION NETWORK NODE

摘要

A node for use with asynchronous and synchronous communication networks to interconnect data systems with networks having transmission paths interconnecting network nodes. Apparatus interconnects pulse controlled components of the node with network transmission paths and synchronizes a flow of data incoming to and outgoing from the node on the network transmission paths within the node at an unsynchronized clock pulse rate independent of the data transfer rate on the transmission paths and independent of a master network clock.