Patent ID: 7881312

Claim:
A network device comprising: a media gateway to receive a voice over digital subscriber line (VoDSL) communication, the media gateway comprising: a first processing unit to process the VoDSL communication to form a voice signal and a control signal; a second processing unit to convert the control signal into network device control data; a signaling gateway controller to convert the network device control data into data in a control interface format; a digital signal processor to convert the voice signal into voice packets in a predetermined format; and a multiplexer to multiplex the voice packets and the data in the control interface format to form voice data; a terminating unit to receive another type of voice communication and output voice data in the predetermined format; and a control unit to receive the voice data from the media gateway and the outputted voice data from the terminating unit, where the network device exchanges at least one of the VoDSL communication to the other type of voice communication or the other type of voice communication to the VoDSL communication.