Patent ID: 7269181

Claim:
A base station controller system comprising: a plurality of resource pools, each said resource pool comprising resources supporting at least one call processing function; and a system controller to allocate selected combinations of specific resources from one or more of said plurality of resource pools to provide desired call processing for respective ones of calls to and from a plurality of wireless access terminals; said base station controller organized as: a hub subrack comprising a central switching resource and said system controller; and at least one processing subrack to carry said plurality of resource pools, each said at least one processing subrack comprising resources from each of said plurality of resource pools and switching resources to communicatively couple said processing subrack to said hub subrack; said switching resources on each said processing subrack and said central switching resource on said hub subrack together comprising a switching fabric to communicatively couple said hub subrack with each of said at least one processing subrack, said switching fabric comprising: a communication switch on said hub subrack; a communication switch on each said at least one processing subrack; and a plurality of communication links between said communication switches on said at least one processing subrack and said communication switch on said hub subrack.