Abstract: A general digital message network for short address-coded telegrams having plural switching stations. In each switching station the outputs of the input stores are each connected to one of the inputs of a multiplexer. The inputs of the output stores are connected to the output of the multiplexer and the output stores are each connected to a comparator circuit with a fixed value store in which the routing word associated with the outgoing line of the output store is stored, in such a way that upon correspondence of the routing word in one of the fixed value stores with the routing word at a specific location of the address of the telegram in the associated output store, this telegram is transmittable onto the output line thereof.