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US 7,564,833 B2Granted
Electronic loop provisioning
AssigneeAT&T Corp.
InventorsFarhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Thomas W. Hill, Jr., Scott Joseph Mollica
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a local network access architecture and method of providing local services that advantageously replaces portions of the physical hardwired local loop with a path that is software-defined.
Claims14
A digital loop transmission system comprising:
- a remote terminal comprising a packet processor that converts an analog signal carried on a customer loop into digital packets;
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- a packet node connected to the remote terminal having a configurable forwarding table associating each one of a plurality of subscribers with one of a plurality of local exchange carriers,
- wherein said packet node is configured to selectively forward the digital packets based on an identifier in the digital packets,
- wherein said identifier identifies one of said plurality of subscribers associated with the digital packets, to equipment of a respective one of said plurality of local exchange carriers in accordance with said configurable forwarding table,
- wherein said plurality of local exchange carriers comprises different companies and each one of said plurality of local exchange carriers provides at least one different service subscribed to by one of said plurality of subscribers.
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A method of operating a digital loop transmission system comprising:
- converting an analog signal carried on a customer loop into digital packets and including in the packets an identifier associated with the customer loop;
- retrieving associations between the identifier and one of a plurality of local exchange carriers from a configurable forwarding table stored in a packet node,
- wherein said configurable forwarding table associates each one of a plurality of subscribers with one of said plurality of local exchange carriers;
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- selectively forwarding the digital packets to equipment of a respective one of the plurality of local exchange carriers in accordance with said configurable forwarding table based on the identifier included in the digital packets,
- wherein said identifier identifies one of said plurality of subscribers associated with the digital packets,
- wherein said plurality of local exchange carriers comprises different companies and each one of said plurality of local exchange carriers provides at least one different service subscribed to by one of said plurality of subscribers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.