Patent ID: 7054376

Claim:
A modem for symmetric bi-directional transporting of 100BaseTX Ethernet frame data over a telecommunications copper infrastructure, said modem comprising: a 100BaseT port connected to a physical layer module adapted to receive and transmit 100BaseT Ethernet signals; a data splitter adapted to split a received single 100 Mbps Ethernet stream into four 25 Mbps data upstream signals; a 100BaseS port having one to four DSL ports coupled to said data splitter, each DSL port is adapted to generate a separate upstream DSL signal from a 25 Mbps data upstream signal, each generated upstream DSL signal is coupled to a corresponding separate copper twisted pair wire connected to said DSL port, each DSL port is further adapted to receive a downstream DSL signal and to generate a 25 Mbps downstream signal, wherein each 25 Mbps downstream signal is received over said corresponding copper twisted pair wire; and a data collection and reorganization unit coupled to said four DSL ports and adapted to assemble said four 25 Mbps downstream signals into a single 100 Mbps Ethernet data stream for transmission by said physical layer module.