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System for communicating digital cellular data between a cell site and a switching system or another cell site

  • US 5,434,854 A
  • Filed: 12/27/1993
  • Issued: 07/18/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An improvement for the telephone network, said telephone network comprising a plurality of connection-based networks and a plurality of cellular communications networks, each of said cellular communications networks comprising a plurality of cell sites that communicate with a plurality of mobile units via radio signals, said cell sites converting data received in said radio signals into electronic data and convening electronic data into said radio signals, each of said connection-based networks having a plurality of delivery points which function to translate from said electronic data into a form used by said connection-based network and from said form used by said connection-based network into said electronic data, said improvement comprising:

  • a single, high speed packet network, said high speed packet network having connections to each of said plurality of cell sites and each of said delivery points;

    means at each of said cell sites for packetizing said electronic data for transmission by said high speed packet network, for transmitting and receiving said packetized communications on said high speed packet network, for depacketizing said electronic data, and for converting said depacketized electronic data into said radio signals; and

    means at each of said delivery points for receiving and transmitting said packetized communications from said high speed packet network, for depacketizing said packetized communications into unpacketized communications and for translating said packetized communications into a format used by said connection-based network,wherein said high speed packet network delivers said unpacketized communications to any delivery point connected to said high speed packet network.

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