A digital Cross Connect (DCS) switch for multicast and broadcast traffic
Gunjan Thakur, Preeta Sharan, Mrinal Sarvagya · 2016
The tremendous growth of broadcast and multicast traffic applications (audio, video, IPTV, teleconferencing etc) over the internet has created an imperative demand for high performance switches. Various switching architectures have been proposed for multicast traffic support. A Digital Cross Connect (DCS) is a crossbar-based switching device and has been considered the most suitable architecture because of its low cost and internal multicast capabilities. In this paper we have proposed the design of a Digital Cross Connect (DCS) switch for broadcast and multicast traffic support. The proposed DCS design has been simulated for different traffic modes (multicast and broadcast) using Verilog Hardware Description Langauage (HDL) in Xilinx software. Further, the design can be implemented on the FPGA board in order to achieve flexibility, adaptibility and scalability.