AGGREGATION SWITCH, METHOD OF OPERATING AN AGGREGATION SWITCH AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT

摘要

The invention relates to an aggregation switch for coupling a digital subscriber line access multiplexer (102, 104, 106,...) to an aggregation network (100), the aggregation switch having a set of physical ports (A, B, C, D), each physical port of the set of physical ports being adapted to provide a set of virtual ports, wherein each of the virtual ports is defined by one of the physical ports in combination with a subscriber identifier.