Patent ID: 6724765
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A system for processing a call having call signaling and user communications, the system comprising:a fiber data distributed interface ring; a signaling processor linked to the ring and adapted to receive and process the call signaling, to select a connection for the call, to generate a control message that designates the connection, to select a second connection for the call, and to generate a second control message that designates the second connection; an interworking unit linked to the ring and adapted to receive via the ring the control message generated from the signaling processor and to interwork the user communications with the connection designated in the control message; and a controllable asynchronous transfer mode matrix linked to the ring and adapted to receive via the ring the second control message generated from the signaling processor, and to connect the user communications to the second connection designated in the second control message.