This paper describes system designs and design techniques applied in the design of a digital time-division switching system for a military communication network. The digital switches are interconnected by bit interleaved digital time-division multiplexed trunk groups. The switching system uses an advanced non-blocking, bit interleaved, digital time-division switch matrix to switch synchronous voice and data communications. The nodes of the model network are timed by high accuracy atomic clocks and use first-in-first-out buffers to compensate for clock frequency differences. The digital switching system uses common channel digital message signaling to communicate signaling and supervision data between connected switching centers. Signaling channels use a comprehensive error control system to provide reliable signaling and maintain signaling throughput in adverse transmission noise environments. The switching system's stored program control provides a telephone switching system which can be applied to many different networks. The flexible stored program control enables the same hardware system to perform switching for networks with different network signaling and/or routing/numbering plans.