Universal Ethernet Telecommunications Service
First Claim
1. Universal Ethernet Telecommunications Service, amenable for application to communication relating to voice telephone networks, local area networks, packet telephony, broadband services, data transmission via an electrical network and Internet, that extends an Ethernet local area network to infrastructure of telecom operators and service providers in an “
- Ethernet domain”
, comprising;
a) a Terminator of Universal Ethernet Network (TRUE) (101, 103), for facilitating access to the Ethernet local area network;
b) an extension of the Ethernet local area network to the infrastructure of telecom operators and the service providers in the “
Ethernet domain”
, by means of utilization of local MAC addresses, indicated with a U/L bit fixed to one, assigned to every physical interface in order that switching could be done directly by means of any one of Banyan, Benes, or Batcher switching matrices;
c) a Terminal Universal Ethernet (TUE), comprising one of a specific device and software designed to run on a computer, and that will use protocols based in IEEE 802.2 LLC for transport in the Ethernet domain, and d) an exchange for the universal Ethernet Telecommunications Service (105), wherein for local MAC frames, (bit U/L=1), logical and physical network addresses coincide, not needing additional tables because a destination address carries routing information, designed with levels of quality and reliability required for the telecommunications service, applying a necessary degree of redundancy both in hardware and at protocol level.
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Abstract
We describe a universal Ethernet telecommunications service (UETS) that combines the features of the telephone network, local area networks and the Internet in order to offer integrated broadband services by re-using the infrastructure of the telephone and electrical networks. User-network communication extends the Ethernet local network services to the infrastructure of the operator in the “Ethernet domain”, which is distinguished from the Internet “IP domain”. The access device offers packet telephone service, with power supply over the telephone pairs, which guarantees the emergency call through the exchange being provided with a battery and power control for energy saving. Terminals are also defined with a simple supervisor to support the applications used in the Internet, which communicate via the Ethernet domain with the LLC/MAC or TCP/IP protocols and via the IP domain with the TCP/IP protocols.
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5 Claims
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1. Universal Ethernet Telecommunications Service, amenable for application to communication relating to voice telephone networks, local area networks, packet telephony, broadband services, data transmission via an electrical network and Internet, that extends an Ethernet local area network to infrastructure of telecom operators and service providers in an “
- Ethernet domain”
, comprising;
a) a Terminator of Universal Ethernet Network (TRUE) (101, 103), for facilitating access to the Ethernet local area network;
b) an extension of the Ethernet local area network to the infrastructure of telecom operators and the service providers in the “
Ethernet domain”
, by means of utilization of local MAC addresses, indicated with a U/L bit fixed to one, assigned to every physical interface in order that switching could be done directly by means of any one of Banyan, Benes, or Batcher switching matrices;
c) a Terminal Universal Ethernet (TUE), comprising one of a specific device and software designed to run on a computer, and that will use protocols based in IEEE 802.2 LLC for transport in the Ethernet domain, and d) an exchange for the universal Ethernet Telecommunications Service (105), wherein for local MAC frames, (bit U/L=1), logical and physical network addresses coincide, not needing additional tables because a destination address carries routing information, designed with levels of quality and reliability required for the telecommunications service, applying a necessary degree of redundancy both in hardware and at protocol level. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
- Ethernet domain”
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