Abstract: For a virtual connection set up using an asynchronous transmission method which transmits information cells with a rate which is not constant over a relatively long period, the maximum rate may be limited, on the one hand, and the access of the information cells to a trunk line carrying information cells of a plurality of virtual connections may be regulated, on the other hand. As a result, the rate of information cells of a virtual connection is limited.

Abstract: In a circuit arrangement for PCM telecommunication facilities, especially PCM long distance exchange facilities with several synchronous pulse clock controlled transmitters for common transmitting chanel, information from different transmission processes flows over a transmitting channel common to all transmitters. In addition to the transmitting channel, a test channel is provided. For the prevention of simultaneous transmission and a co-mingling together of information, each transmitter transmits its own binary coded address to the transmitting channel always before a message as well as to the test channel and receives back the total information after combining on the test channel for comparison, bit-by-bit with the actual address information transmitted by it.

Abstract: A drawer-like frame has an open bottom which is provided with a lattice-kind construction of transverse bars extending from one wall to the opposite wall (e.g., a partition) and an elongated mounting plate across the transverse bars. Terminal elements have one of their ends bolted to such a mounting plate and the other end is bolted to a mounting bar at one of the walls.