Patent ID: 6052365
Filing Date: 2000-04-18
Classification: G06F,H04B,H04L,H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
A communications protocol converter for a central station of a wireless telecommunications system in which said central station communicates with a plurality of subscriber stations served by said central station, said central station is connectable to a telecommunications network under a multiplexed multi-channel digital data telecommunications protocol having a plural number of digital data user channels, each subscriber station operable to receive a predetermined plurality of digital data user channels from the central station, each digital data user channel associated with a unique one of a plurality of subscribers, each subscriber station having a wireline connection for carrying each of the predetermined plurality of digital data user channels to and from its associated one of the plurality of subscribers, where said plural number is greater than said predetermined plurality, and said central station is connectable to each subscriber station via a wireless link under a wireless link protocol having said predetermined plurality of digital data user channels, wherein said communications protocol converter comprises a central protocol interface for converting between said multiplexed multi-channel digital data telecommunications protocol and said wireless link protocol for each wireless link.