The invention relates to a switching element comprising a plurality of input ports and at least one output port, a spatial switching mechanism and a cell memory in which the cells are stored, said cells being able to be classified according to at least one characteristic. BR/ It is characterized in that said transmission element comprises: BR/ - means for accessing the cells contained in said memory of cells selectively according to said characteristic, BR/ - a probability memory associating with each possible value i of said characteristic a probability pi, BR/ - a server which chooses the cell to be transmitted from those contained in said memory of cells as a function of the probabilities (pi) contained in the probability memory and whether or not there is a cell in the cell memory for each value (i) of said characteristic.par. / P
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