Patent ID: 7613206

Claim:
A method for transitioning an AAL2 signaling protocol into at least one further signaling protocol of at least one communication network, comprising: in processing unit, determining at least one characteristic from the parameter values specified for the AAL2 signaling protocol; and in the processing unit, using the determined characteristics for mapping parameter values of the AAL2 signaling protocol into parameter values of the further signaling protocol, wherein a transition is performed to convert the Link Characteristics parameter values of the AAL2 signaling protocol to the Transfer Capabilities parameter values of the AAL2 signaling protocol; wherein a transition is performed to convert the Link Characteristics parameter values of the AAL2 signaling protocol to the IP Transfer Capability parameter values of a signaling protocol for IP connections; and wherein in order to determine the bit rate for the transition of the Link Characteristics parameter values of the AAL2 signaling protocol to the IP Transfer Capability parameter values of a signaling protocol for IP connections, a minimum header bit rate on the IP side is determined from a number of data packets per time unit of the peak rate at maximum packet size and the bit rate is determined in conjunction with the peak byte rate.