Patent ID: 7079521
Filing Date: 2006-07-18
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a voice session in a micro wireless network, comprising: providing at an access router of a micro wireless network an interface for communication with a service node of a macro wireless network coupled to the micro wireless network, the interface of a same type as used by a radio access network of the macro wireless network to communicate with the service node; establishing a real-time protocol communication path from the interface at the access router of the micro wireless network through a voice module of the service node of the macro wireless network to a public switched telephone network associated with the macro wireless network; and communicating voice traffic to the public switched telephone network through the interface and the real-time protocol communication path, wherein the voice module is operable to instruct the access router of the micro wireless network to establish real time protocol streaming connections to a gateway of the public switched telephone network associated with the macro wireless network, and wherein the voice module is further operable to connect incoming voice traffic to a vocoder that is operable to convert incoming voice traffic from a compression format of the router to a compression format used by the public switched telephone network.