VOICE COMMUNICATION ON MULTIMEDIA ATM NETWORK USING SHARED VCI CELL

This paper presents novel multimedia ATM networks which are capable of transmitting voice data efficiently and unify the switching methods a mong heterogeneous traffic. Fully ATMized multimedia networks are usin g fellow cell switches. The proposed assembly method can pack plural c alls which have different virtual channel connection (VCC) into one ce ll. Every call in cells is able to be dynamically rearranged by the fe llow cell switch to achieve an efficient use of network resources. The su-itching functions are supported by shared virtual channel identifi er (VCI) cells and fellow cells in it. The fellow cell switch for 622 Mbps links is integrated into a single chip. The multimedia ATM networ ks including voice transmission can be constructed by the fellow cell switches bring attached to the standard ATM switches.