Integrated telecommunications line systems and cross-connect

摘要

An integrated line system/cross-connect arrangement for switching traffic carried on first and second paths in a synchronous telecommunications network reduces the quantity of cross-site cabling and switch complexity required at higher transmission bit rates The traffic is loaded into virtual containers according to whether that traffic is or is not to be switched at the cross-connect. Switching is performed at the cross-connect at the virtual container level. <IMAGE>