Telecommunications system with a switching facility and a data concentrator for providing access to the internet
AssigneeAlcatel
InventorsKarl Rothenhöfer, Günther König, Helmut Kulzer
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Abstract
A method of operating a telecommunications system with a switching facility and with subscriber channels over which digital data are transmissible in the form of data packets each including a destination address, and such a telecommunications system are characterized in that the data packets of two or more subscriber channels to be sent to the Internet are combined onto a single concentrating channel.
Claims3
A method of operating a telecommunications system having a switching facility and a plurality of subscriber channels over which data are transmitted in packet form, comprising:
- recognizing calls from subscribers to an internet;
- at the front end of the switching facility associated with said subscribers, combining those packets of the plurality of subscriber channels that are to be sent to the internet onto a single channel;
- and
- in a concentrator, concentrating data incoming on two or more B channels in a single, outgoing channel;
- wherein two or more devices of the concentrator together control the feeding of packets into at least one concentrating channel, particularly with a view to avoiding and controlling access contention.
A method of operating a telecommunications system having a switching facility and a plurality of subscriber channels over which data are transmitted in packet form, comprising:
- recognizing calls from subscribers to an internet;
- at the front end of the switching facility associated with said subscribers, combining those packets of the plurality of subscriber channels that are to be sent to the internet onto a single channel;
- and
- in a concentrator, concentrating data incoming on two or more B channels in a single, outgoing channel, wherein the concentrator is configured to switch so as to route data not to be concentrated to associated outgoing B channels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.