Patent ID: 7257131

Claim:
A system for communicating traffic between a cell site and a central office in a telecommunications network, comprising: a cell site router operable to receive a voice traffic stream in a layer two based protocol, the cell site router operable to remove redundant information to generate a compressed stream of payloads from the layer two based protocol voice traffic stream, the cell site router operable to sort each payload of the compressed stream according to its intended destination, the cell site router operable to generate a layer two packet for each group of payloads of the compressed stream having a same intended destination, the cell site router operable to prioritize each layer two packet with other packets not carrying the voice traffic stream and having the same intended destination, the cell site router operable to transmit all packets to the intended destination; an aggregation node operable to receive packets from the cell site router, the aggregation node operable to separate layer two packets from the other packets, the aggregation node operable to extract each payload from each of the layer two packets, the aggregation node operable to decompress each payload carried by the layer two packet, the aggregation link operable to forward each payload towards its intended destination.