Patent ID: 6618384
Filing Date: 2003-09-09
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
A system for incorporating both wireless voice and data capability with wireline voice and data capability into a telecommunications network, said system comprising:customer premises equipment; an Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching fabric within said network for delivering communications signals between a first communications device and a second communications device; at least one integrated edge switch access device connected to said Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching fabric, said edge switch access device comprising: a plurality of data and voice signal processing functions for processing communications signals, said data and voice signal processing functions comprising: a signal processing function for pre-processing incoming and outgoing signals; an access interface function for interfacing with said Asynchronous Transfer Mode network; a trunk interface function for interfacing Public Switched Telephone Network with a connected wireless network; a Digital Service Level Zero function for converting analog signals to Pulse Code Modulation signals; and an element management function for controlling and managing network Operations Administration and Maintenance functions; a plurality of conversion functions for converting said communications signals; and a call processing function in said integrated edge switch access device for controlling said processing and said conversion functions.