US 4,366,566 AGranted

System for interconnecting subscribers lines to an automatic digital telephone switching system

OwnerJean-Yves Cochennecinventor

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Abstract

In the interconnection system between telephone subscribers lines and digital telephone electronic switching equipment, individual subscriber equipment is associated with each line, which is comprised of means for providing conventional line interface functions and also a conventional two-four wire differential coupler. The four wire output of the coupler is liked to an A/D and D/A converter whose digital output is connected to an output multiplex and digital input to an input multiplex. Each individual equipment has an outgoing and return route allotted in both the input and output multiplexes. The input and output multiplexes or time shared data busses are multiplied to the inputs and outputs of a plurality of basic digital switches connected by two-way digital multiplexes or data busses.

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Dependent claims

A system for cross connecting individual subscriber line circuits to their assigned positions in a digital switching system, said digital switching system comprising a plurality time division multiplex switches interconnected by incoming and outgoing time division highways, said switches being connected in multiple to said highways, each of said subscriber line circuits comprising means individually associated with each of said subscriber lines for performing interfacing functions, two-to-four wire differential coupling means having its four wire side coupled to analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converter means, a digital output on said converter means being connected to an outgoing highway means, a digital input on said converter means being connected to an incoming highway, means for allocating to each of said line circuit means one incoming and one outgoing channel on said incoming and outgoing highways, and digital switch means for programming interconnections between said incoming and outgoing channels.

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