Patent ID: 7006486

Claim:
A telecommunication system for enabling an end user to select communication services from a plurality of communication services, said system comprising: a telecommunication switch in a circuit-switched portion of the system; a plurality of service networks that communicate with the switch through Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) connections at a link layer, each service network providing a different communication service, wherein at least one of the service networks provides intranet communications and at least one of the service networks provides television communications, and different channels of the television service network are stored on a server in the intranet service network; and a local network terminal that communicates with the switch through a VLAN connection configured to carry communications for the plurality of different services provided by the service networks, said network terminal including: a plurality of service ports for connecting a plurality of user devices to the network terminal, each of the user devices being configured to support a corresponding communication service; means for configuring the plurality of service ports for the respective user devices; and means for providing communications for the corresponding communication service to an activating user device in response to an activation of a service port by the activating user device; wherein a user device for the intranet service is utilized to select and configure a user device for the television service.