Patent ID: 7136376
Filing Date: 2006-11-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A data transmission system comprising: at least one serving central office, wherein the serving central office includes a switching device; at least one end user unit, wherein said end user unit includes: a) a data communication device coupled to the switching device of the serving central office via a twisted pair line: and b) an internet appliance device that is coupled to the data communication device; wherein multimedia data is transferred between the switching device of the serving central office and the data communication device of the end user unit, and between The data communication device of the end user unit and the internet appliance device of the end user unit using a common data transmission protocol; and wherein the switching device includes a Broadband Subscriber Line (BSL) switching device and the data communication device includes a Broadband Subscriber Line (BSL) data communication device.