Patent ID: 8547994
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A communication network comprising: a first central digital subscriber line (DSL) unit having at least one application port and a plurality of DSL ports; a first remote DSL unit having at least one application port and at least one DSL port, wherein the first remote DSL unit is communicatively coupled to the central DSL unit via a first single independent DSL pair having a first EOC channel; and a second remote DSL unit having at least one application port and at least one DSL port, wherein the second remote DSL unit is communicatively coupled to the central DSL unit via a second single independent DSL pair having a second EOC channel; wherein the at least one application port in the central DSL unit is communicatively coupled to an application port in at least one of the first remote DSL unit and the second remote DSL unit; wherein the first central DSL unit is configured to receive a signal of a first interface format over the at least one application port, extract timeslots from the received signal, and transmit the extracted timeslots to at least one of the first remote DSL unit and the second remote DSL unit; wherein the first remote DSL unit and the second remote DSL unit are each configured to use respective timeslots received from the first central DSL unit to generate at least one respective second signal of a dissimilar interface format.