System and method for providing data and voice services on a shared line
AssigneeNHC Communications
InventorJoe Teixeria
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Abstract
A cross connect physical layer switching system is integrated into a central office and facilitates delivering data services, such as digital subscriber line (DSL) service, to subscribers over a shared data and voice line. The cross connect physical layer switching system may be placed between a splitter and the shared line to allow a remote test unit to be controllably connected to the shared line to permit testing of the shared line by a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC). By placing the physical layer switching system in the CO, both the CLEC and the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) have full access to the test head (RTU) and full spectrum testing of the line. This allows test access to continue to be done remotely as in an unshared line environment.
Claims19
A method for automatically provisioning shared data and voice service for a telecommunications line, comprising:
- providing separate voice and data paths;
- providing a splitter having separate voice and data ports coupled to the separate voice and data paths and a shared port that represents a combination of signals on the separate ports;
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- providing a cross connect switch that provisions service by controllably connecting the data path to the data port of the splitter and by controllably connecting the shared port of the splitter to a shared line in a first state and a test unit to the shared line in a second state.
A system for automatically provisioning shared data and voice service over a telecommunications line, comprising:
- a splitter having separate voice and data ports coupled to separate voice and data paths and a shared port that represents a combination of signals on the separate voice and data ports;
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- a cross connect switch that provisions service by controllably connecting the data path to the data port of the splitter and by controllably connecting the shared port of the splitter to a shared line in a first state and a test unit to the shared line in a second state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.