Patent ID: 7796576

Claim:
A communications system that communicates via at least a random access channel and a reservation-oriented channel, comprising: a node that compares at least one criterion to at least one characteristic of traffic in which data is communicated from a given terminal; and wherein upon the at least one traffic characteristic satisfying the at least one criterion, the node, in response to a bandwidth reservation request, processes and grants the bandwidth reservation request, communicates the granting of the bandwidth reservation request to the given terminal, and causes the given terminal to transmit data on the reservation-oriented channel, the reservation-oriented channel transmits data based on orthogonal code division multiple access (OCDMA); and wherein upon the at least one traffic characteristic not satisfying the at least one criterion, the node causes the given terminal to transmit data on the random access channel, the random access channel transmits data based on asynchronous code division multiple access (ACDMA).