Patent ID: 6470009
Filing Date: 2002-10-22
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
A communication system comprising:a digital channel cross-connect configured to cross-connect individual digital channels with one another based on channel control signals; a remote terminal configured to exchange analog user communications and analog signaling with user communication devices, interwork the analog user communications with digital user communications, interwork the analog signaling with digital signaling, and exchange the digital user communications and the digital signaling with the digital channels; a digital signal processor configured. to exchange the digital user communications with the digital channels; an adaption layer configured to exchange the digital user communications with the digital channels and add identifiers to the digital user communications based on interworking control signals; a routing device configured to route the digital user communications based on the identifiers added to the digital user communications; and a signaling processor configured to exchange the digital signaling with the digital channels, process the digital signaling to generate the channel control signals that correspond the individual digital channels with one another, and process the digital signaling to generate the interworking control signals that correspond individual ones of the identifiers with the individual digital channels.