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Broadband telecommunications system

  • US 6,081,525 A
  • Filed: 02/02/1996
  • Issued: 06/27/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/08/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of operating a telecommunications system to provide a call with a virtual connection wherein a user places the call by transmitting user information to the telecommunications system over a particular connection for the call and by sending signaling for the call to the telecommunications system, wherein the system comprises an ATM interworking multiplexer and a signaling processor coupled to the ATM interworking multiplexer, the method comprising:

  • receiving the signaling for the call into the signaling processor;

    processing the signaling for the call in the signaling processor to select the virtual connection;

    generating a control message in the signaling processor to identify the particular connection and the selected virtual connection;

    transmitting the control message to the ATM interworking multiplexer;

    receiving the user information for the call from the particular connection into the ATM interworking multiplexer;

    converting the user information from the particular connection into ATM cells that identify the selected virtual connection in the ATM interworking multiplexer in response to the control message; and

    transmitting the ATM cells from the ATM interworking multiplexer over the selected virtual connection.

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