Patent ID: 7991142

Claim:
A telephone exchange apparatus comprising: a plurality of processors whose connect communication lines differing in communication protocol from one another; a memory which stores a plurality of items of protocol unique information to process communication signals corresponding to the plurality of processors; a communication controller which is connected to the plurality of processors via control buses with smaller transmission capacities than those of the plurality of communication lines, and reads the corresponding-protocol unique information from the memory based on notified protocol identification information and makes the corresponding processor execute signal processing by the protocol unique information; and a call controller which notifies protocol identification information corresponding to a communication line to be added to the communication controller, when a setting request for a call is issued; wherein the communication controller includes a communication control function for telephone terminals connected to a communication line with a minimum transmission capacity among the plurality of communication lines wherein: when a session initiation protocol network is used as the communication lines, and an Internet Protocol-Q-Signaling network is used as a private network, the system further comprises: a communicator which periodically communicates voice quality information relating to Internet Protocol trunk communication using the session initiation protocol network among the plurality of telephone exchange apparatuses; and a route selector which selects one communication route among a plurality of communication routes which are formed between a first telephone terminal to be connected to a telephone exchange apparatus to be a trunk outgoing call side and a second telephone terminal to be an incoming call destination and pass through different communication lines, private network or telephone exchange apparatuses, based on a communication result of the voice quality information by the communicator in making a trunk outgoing call.