Patent ID: 6993011

Claim:
A user communication hub for providing communications services to an end user at a user location, wherein the user communication hub comprises: a plurality of communication interfaces that are operational to communicate with a plurality of end-user communication devices that are located at the user location and that use a plurality of communications formats, wherein the communication interfaces are operational to convert between the communications formats and an ATM format, wherein at least one of the communication interfaces comprises an analog telephony interface that communicates with a telephone that is located at the user location and that uses an analog telephony format, wherein the analog telephony interface is operational to convert between the analog telephony format and the ATM format; a Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) interface that is coupled to the communications interfaces and a communication system and said ADSL interface is operational to communicate with the communication system using an ADSL with ATM over DSL format.