Automatic provisioning of ATM connections

A remote unit, comprising:

• one or more digital subscriber line interface cards, including:
• a digital subscriber line interface adapted to receive asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) traffic from one or more digital subscriber lines;
• an application specific integrated circuit coupled to the digital subscriber line interface and programmed to statically cross connect the ATM traffic between customer premises equipment to a network;
• wherein the application specific integrated circuit device cross connects customer premises equipment based on the physical port number that receives the ATM traffic and the number of virtual path identifiers assigned to the customer premises equipment;
• and
• an inverse multiplexer adapted to receive and map the ATM traffic directly onto one or more time division multiplex transmission lines;
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• an internal TDM bus coupled between the one or more digital subscriber line interface cards and a TDM network.

An asymmetric digital subscriber line interface card, comprising:

• an asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) interface device;
• a translation device coupled to the asymmetric digital subscriber line interface device;
• wherein the translation device performs a virtual path cross connect function between customer premises equipment and a network;
• wherein the virtual path cross connect function is based on a physical port number that receives the asynchronous mode traffic and a virtual path identifier assigned to the customer premises equipment;
• an inverse multiplexer coupled to the asymmetric digital subscriber line interface device, wherein the inverse multiplexer directly maps the asynchronous transfer mode traffic directly to one or more time division multiplex transmission lines;
• and
• a time division multiplex interface coupled to the inverse multiplexer.

An asymmetric digital subscriber line interface card, comprising:

• a splitter;
• an asymmetric digital subscriber line interface device coupled to the splitter, wherein the ADSL device is adapted to receive asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) traffic from one or more customer premises equipment;
• wherein the splitter separates the ATM traffic from plain old telephone service (POTS) traffic;
• a POTS line termination circuit coupled to the splitter;
• a translation device coupled to the asymmetric digital subscriber line interface device, wherein the translation device cross connects the ATM traffic between the customer premises equipment and a network based on a virtual path identifier of the traffic and the port number that the traffic was received at;
• an inverse multiplexer coupled to the asymmetric digital subscriber line interface device;
• a time division multiplex interface coupled to the inverse multiplexer;
• and
• wherein the inverse multiplexer directly maps ATM traffic onto one or more time division multiplex transmission lines.

An asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) interface card, comprising:

• an asymmetric digital subscriber line interface device, wherein the ADSL device is adapted to receive ATM traffic from one or more ADSLs;
• a plurality of ports adapted to receive the ATM traffic from the one or more ADSLs, wherein each port includes one or more physical ports (PHYS);
• a UTOPIA interface;
• a translation device adapted to receive ATM traffic from the one or more PHYs over the UTOPIA interface, wherein the translation device cross connects the ATM traffic between customer premises equipment and an ATM network based on the PHY that receives the ATM traffic and a VPI assigned to the traffic;
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• an inverse multiplexer coupled to the asymmetric digital subscriber line interface device, wherein the inverse multiplexer directly maps ATM traffic onto one or more time division multiplex transmission lines.

A telecommunications network, comprising:

• one or more remote units, wherein at least one of the one or more remote units includes:
• at least one ADSL interface card that maps ATM traffic directly onto one or more TDM transmission lines;
• a translation device that cross connects the ATM traffic between customer premises and a network based on a virtual path identifier of the ATM traffic and the port number that the traffic was received on;
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• a central unit coupled to the one or more remote units over a TDM network.

A method of provisioning asynchronous transfer mode traffic, the method comprising:

• receiving upstream asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) data from customer premises equipment;
• detecting the port number at which the upstream ATM data is received;
• reading a first virtual path identifier (VPI) number from the header information of the upstream ATM data;
• acquiring a new VPI number for the upstream ATM traffic based on the receiving port number and the first VPI number;
• attaching the new VPI number to the upstream ATM traffic;
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• directly mapping the ATM traffic onto one or more TDM transmission lines.

A method of provisioning asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) traffic, comprising:

• receiving downstream ATM traffic over one or more TDM transmission lines;
• detecting a first VPI number from the header information of the downstream ATM traffic;
• retrieving a second VPI number and a port number for the ATM traffic from a look-up table based on the first VPI number;
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• attaching the second VPI number to the received downstream ATM traffic;
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• mapping the received downstream ATM traffic to the appropriate customer premises equipment based on the second VPI number and port number.