Patent ID: 6853637

Claim:
A local network in a customer premises comprising: a plurality of local devices in the customer premises, the local devices connected to a local shared communication medium to connect to a data service and a voice service; a gateway device comprising a network adapter for communicating with the local devices over the local shared communication medium, the gateway device further comprising a gateway digital subscriber loop (DSL) transceiver connected to a digital subscriber line; and an infrastructure access device for providing a data service and a voice service to a customer premises, the infrastructure access device comprising: an infrastructure DSL transceiver operable to communicate over a digital subscriber line connected to the gateway device; a voice over IP (Internet Protocol) gateway for connection to a data network operable to provide voice service to the plurality of local devices; a data network IP interface for connection to a data network to provide data services; and a router operable to multiplex a plurality of signals from the voice over IP gateway and the data network IP interface for communication to the infrastructure DSL transceiver.