Routing and Switching a Significant Number of Television Signals Covering Large Areas

A method for automated multi-program selective routing of digital signals is proposed and investigated in the context of their switching. The structure of a signal is discrete periodic (a packet structure). The situation when the possibility of preliminary synchronization of sources is absent is also considered. This is stipulated by the need for using sources with arbitrary parameters of signal structures (the frequency of movement of packets, duration of packets, etc.) and from different producers. Multi-user routing mode is also provided. After the selective synchronized switching of digital signals arriving from a considerable number of sources (from 1000 and more), selective routing is provided for subsequent signal transfer.