摘要 |
Asynchronous switching network for a communications installation kernel (1) including packet-mode support units (2, 3, 6) directly or indirectly interconnected in point-to-point mode by links (L) which are physically structured and managed in terms of time in an identical way. It includes a traffic regulation system including access control means (14, 8, 16) specific to each packet-mode support unit, in order to allow every unit to fix the order of communication of the packets sent to it by the other packet-mode support units. Each transmission of a packet by one unit to another involves the sending of a request by the unit wishing to send to the unit with which it wants to communicate and the sending of an agreement in the opposite direction from the latter, for each of the packet elements separately transmitted between these units. <IMAGE> |