Patent ID: 6430195
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: H04J,H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
A telecommunications system that provides an interface between a broadband system and an ISDN system for a telecommunications call, the telecommunications system comprising:a signaling processor that is operational to process SS7 signaling, to select a broadband connection for the call, and to provide a control message that identifies the selected broadband connection and causes an ATM multiplexer to convert the ISDN bearer communications into broadband bearer communications; a signaling converter that is operational to convert ISDN signaling into the SS7 signaling and to provide the SS7 signaling to the signaling processor; the ATM multiplexer that is operational to receive the ISDN signaling from the ISDN system and to provide the ISDN signaling to the signaling converter, to receive the ISDN bearer communications from the ISDN system and to receive the control message from the signaling processor, to convert the ISDN bearer communications into the broadband bearer communications in response to receiving the control message, and to transmit the broadband bearer communications to the broadband system on the selected broadband connection based on the control message; and a first link between the ATM multiplexer and the signaling converter that is operational to carry the ISDN signaling, a second link between the signaling converter and the signaling processor that is operational to carry SS7 signaling, and a third link between the signaling processor and the ATM multiplexer that is operational to carry the control messages.