A method and apparatus for pre-establishing and managing Switched Virtual Circuits (SVCs) and Switch Cross-Connects (XCs) to support rapid setup of real-time services in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks are described. SVCs and XCs are pre-established and cached in accordance with communications...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6275493?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6275493 - Method and apparatus for caching switched virtual circuits in an ATM network
