Patent ID: 7869464
Filing Date: 2011-01-11
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A communication network comprising: a first digital subscriber line (DSL) unit having a plurality of application ports and at least one DSL port; and a second DSL unit having a plurality of application ports and at least one DSL port; wherein the first DSL unit is communicatively coupled to the second DSL unit via a DSL pair coupled to the at least one DSL port in each of the first and second DSL units; and wherein the first DSL unit is configured to receive a first signal of a first interface format over one of the plurality of application ports, extract timeslots from the received first signal, insert the extracted timeslots into a frame in a specific order, and transmit the timeslots in the frame over the at least one DSL port to the second DSL unit; wherein, based on the specific order of the timeslots in the frame, the second DSL unit is configured to use the timeslots of the first signal received over the at least one DSL port from the first DSL unit to generate a second signal of a second interface format and a third signal of a third interface format, at least one of the second and third interface formats being dissimilar from the first interface format.