A brief introduction to STARLITE, a wideband digital switch.
31 January 1984
A wideband digital switch intended for future visual and data communication needs such as facsimile, electronic mail, computer communications, voice, broadcast television, two-way video, and other services is described. The switch provides arbitrary amounts of receive and transmit per user bandwidth for either bursty or continuous signals in fixed increments. The switch provides traditional one-to-one, many-to-one (simultaneous receive), one-to-many (broadcast), and many-to-many (simultaneous transmit) interconnections.