Patent attributes
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.
