Telecommunications system
AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.
InventorsMartin Joseph Kaplan, Frank Anthony DeNap, John Arndt Strand, III, William Lee Edwards, Bryan Lee Gorman, Murat Bog, Michael Thomas Swink, Harold Wayne Johnson
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Abstract
The invention is a communications system that provides communications services to an end-user. The system includes a residential hub that is connected to the communications system over a DSL connection. The residential hub converts voice traffic to ATM for transmission over the DSL connection. The communications system includes broadband networks and a service node to facilitate communications services for the end-user.
Claims8
A communications system for providing communications services to an end-user having a communications hub, wherein the communications system comprises:
- a session manager that is operational to receive and process service requests from the communications hub to provide connection instructions and signaling instructions;
- a call manager that is coupled to the session manager and a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and that is operational to exchange signaling with the PSTN in response to the signaling instructions from the session manager;
- a multiplexer that is operational to convert between an ATM over DSL format and an ATM over broadband format;
- an ATM switching system that is coupled to the session manager, the multiplexer, and the PSTN, and that is operational to convert between the ATM over broadband format and a PSTN format and provide ATM connections in response to the connection instructions from the session manager;
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- wherein one of the service requests is for an end-user telephone call, a portion of the signaling instructions results in an exchange of signaling with the PSTN for the telephone call, and a portion of the connection instructions results in a connection for the telephone call from the communications hub through the multiplexer and the ATM switching system to the PSTN.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.