Hybrid fiber twisted pair local loop network service architecture
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Abstract
A new architecture capable of utilizing the existing twisted pair interface between customer premises equipment and an associated serving local switching office is used to provide a vast array of new services to customers. Using an intelligent services director (ISD) at the customer services equipment as an interface for the equipment to an existing twisted cable pair and a facilities management platform (FMP) at the serving local switching office as an interface to various networks and service opportunities, new services such as simultaneous, multiple calls (voice analog or digital), facsimile, Internet traffic and other data can be transmitted and received over the twisted cable pair by using digital subscriber loop transmission schemes. The new services include but are not limited to videophone, utility meter reading and monitoring, broadcasting and multicasting. The architecture provides for fault-tolerant, transparent interaction of components and services and supports a variety of standards for each level of the open systems interconnection layers and layers of TCP/IP. The FMP connects electronically or optically to the public switched telephone network, Internet backbone, a private Intranet as well as other possible network connections.
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62 Claims
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32. A communications architecture for providing enhanced services between customer premises equipment and a plurality of communication networks, comprising:
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customer premises equipment coupled to an intelligent services director, capable of multiplexing signals from said customer services equipment for transmission on at least one twisted pair coupled to a facilities management platform;
said facilities management platform, filtering and separating voice signals from data packets and transmitting said data packets to a router that is coupled to at least one communication network of said communication networks; and
a network server platform functionally coupled to a plurality of facilities management platforms, the network server platform providing system management to said communications architecture;
said facilities management platform further comprising at least one line card, the facilities management platform being adapted to directly route analog voice signals to the at least one line card. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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50. A communications architecture for providing enhances services between customer premises equipment and a plurality of communication networks having trunk lines, comprising:
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a customer premises equipment with an intelligent services director where said intelligent services director multiplexes signals from said customer services equipment for transmission on at least one twisted pair coupled to a facilities management platform;
said facilities management platform, filtering and separating voice signals from data signals and transmitting data packets to a router that is coupled to said communication network, said facilities management platform further transmitting said voice signals to a modified digital subscriber loop for multiplexing said voice signal for transmission over said communication network trunk lines; and
a network server platform coupled to a plurality of facilities management platforms providing system management to said communications architecture;
said facilities management platform further comprising at least one line card, the facilities management platform being adapted to directly route analog voice signals to the at least one line card. - View Dependent Claims (51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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