Patent ID: 7009961
Filing Date: 2006-03-07
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. An integrated customer premise system for connection to both an external analog telephone network and to a digital packet network for conducting to a customer's audio equipment both analog telephone calls from the external analog telephone network and voice-over-packet (VoP) telephone calls from the digital packet network, said system comprising an analog call processor, an analog interface connecting the analog telephone calls from the external analog telephone network to said analog call processor, a VoP call processor, a digital interface for connecting the VoP telephone calls from the external packet network to said VoP call processor; a plurality of customer audio devices for use in either an analog telephone call from the external analog telephone network or a digital VoP telephone call from the external packet network, and a switching and bridging system connected to said analog call processor and said VoP call processor for connecting one or both of said analog and digital VoP telephone calls to said customer audio devices.