EFFECTIVE MULTILINK FLOW HANDLING

According to the present invention, a switching method and a switching device ( 3 ) are disclosed for providing a multilink connection between a subscriber ( 1 ) and a network ( 2 ), the multilink connection consisting of a plurality of physical connections taken by the subscriber ( 1 ). The switching device ( 3 ) comprises a plurality of converting means ( 34, 35 ) each converting, upon activation, physical connections into a logical connection to the network ( 2 ) and converting a logical connection from the network ( 2 ) into physical connections. Furthermore, the switching device ( 3 ) comprises control means ( 31, 32, 33 ) for accepting a connection from the subscriber ( 1 ), for detecting that the connection is a physical connection belonging to a multilink connection, for activating one of the converting means ( 34, 35 ) for the detected multilink connection, and for directing the accepted connection and subsequently accepted physical connections belonging to the detected multilink connection to the converting means ( 34, 35 ) activated for this multilink connection.