Patent ID: 7301960
Filing Date: 2007-11-27
Classification: H04J

Abstract:
1. A system for transmitting and receiving one of T1 and E1 control data in a time division multiplexer (TDM) communication network, comprising: a master control source for providing the control data for the communication network, the communication network comprising one of a T1 system and an E1 system; at least one slave TDM multiplexer within the TDM communications network, the at least one slave TDM multiplexer having a plurality of associated data sources and being operative to produce a TDM signal, comprising a plurality of fixed-length frames, each of the plurality of associated data sources being represented by one of a plurality of time-slots of equal length that reoccur at a fixed length across each of the plurality of fixed-length frames, the plurality of time-slots representing respective data channels of the TDM communications network, a given slave TDM multiplexer comprising: a transmitter component, having an associated transmit processor, for accepting the TDM control data from the master control source and inserting the TDM control data into at least a portion of one of the plurality of fixed-length, recurrent time-slots of equal length in each frame of the plurality of frames the TDM signal; and a receiver component for extracting the TDM control data from the TDM signal and passing the TDM control data to a local processor.