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AssigneeAT&T Corp.
InventorsIrwin Gerszberg, Robert Raymond Miller, II, Dennis Matthew Romain, Jesse Eugene Russell, Philip Andrew Treventi
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A new architecture capable of utilizing the existing twisted pair interface between customer premises equipment and an associated serving local switching office is used to provide a vast array of new services to customers. Using an intelligent services director (ISD) at the customer services equipment as an interface for the equipment to an existing twisted cable pair and a facilities management platform (FMP) at the serving local switching office as an interface to various networks and service opportunities, new services such as simultaneous, multiple calls (voice analog or digital), facsimile, Internet traffic and other data can be transmitted and received over the twisted cable pair by using digital subscriber loop transmission schemes. The new services include but are not limited to videophone, utility meter reading and monitoring, broadcasting and multicasting. The architecture provides for fault-tolerant, transparent interaction of components and services and supports a variety of standards for each level of the open systems interconnection layers and layers of TCP/IP. The FMP connects electronically or optically to the public switched telephone network, Internet backbone, a private Intranet as well as other possible network connections.
A communications architecture comprising:
In a communication architecture comprising at least one customer premises equipment interface device coupled to a modem, the interface device being connected to one end of a customer connection, a facilities management platform capable of separating voice signals from data packet signals and connected to another end of said customer connection, the facilities management platform for interfacing with a plurality of different networks including a packet data network via a digital optical ring network, a router within the facilities management platform for transmitting data packet signals received from customer premises equipment to a packet data communications network simultaneously with transmitting voice signals received from customer premises equipment, and a network server platform coupled to said facilities management platform via said digital optical ring network for providing system management to the facilities management platform, a method of providing simultaneous communications over said customer connection comprising the steps of:
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