Patent ID: 6434139
Filing Date: 2002-08-13
Classification: H04M,H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
In a telecommunication system for routing real-time information traffic from an originating digital radio unit served by an originating network to a terminating unit served by a terminating network, via an intermediate network interconnecting said originating network and said terminating network, the originating digital radio unit having an encoder/decoder for generating digital wireless frames from information that is input thereto, said originating network having an originating node with an encoder/decoder for converting said digital wireless frames to digital wireline traffic, and said intermediate network including an originating-end interface node with an encoder/decoder for converting said digital wireline traffic into compressed digital wireline traffic, a method for optimizing communications routed between the originating and terminating units, comprising:routing said digital wireless frames without wireless-specific conversion to digital wireline traffic at said originating node of said originating network, whereby the rate of information traffic throughput from said originating unit to said terminating unit is increased; said intermediate network including a terminating-end interface node and said terminating network including a terminating node connected to said terminating unit, and; wherein said terminating-end interface node of said intermediate network: receives said digital wireless frames from said originating-end interface node of said intermediate network; performs wireless-specific conversion to convert said digital wireless frames to digital wireline traffic; and routes said digital wireline traffic to said terminating node in said terminating network.