Telecommunication system for the bidirectional transmission of data and voice signals

• US 7,043,197 B2
• Filed: 08/14/2002
• Issued: 05/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Intel Germany GmbH (Intel Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
• Inventors: Peleg, Shimon, Kindler, Matthias
• Primary Examiner(s): DANIEL JR, WILLIE J
• Application Number:
  US10/218,357
• Publication Number:
  US 20030104810A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,364 Days
• Field of Search: 455/12.1, 455/3.02, 455/427, 455/3.05, 709/217, 709/218, 709/231, 725/48, 725/111, 725/109, 725/110, 725/105, 725/106, 370/480, 370/493, 370/487, 370/490, 375/222
• US Class Current: 455/12.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/1858 Arrangements for data transmission on the physical system, i.e. for data bit transmission between network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport

Abstract

Telecommunication system for bidirectional transmission of data and voice signals with a data network (2), which is connected via a satellite data transmission link (6, 5, 8) for bidirectional data signal transmission to at least one satellite device (7), which is connected to a 10 Base S switching device (14); a telephone network (25), which is connected via a number of subscriber telephone lines (23) for bidirectional voice signal transmission to the 10 Base S switching device (14); and with a number of 10 Base S subscriber modems (18), which are connected for bidirectional voice and data signal transmission to the 10 Base S switching device (14).

Claims

1. Telecommunication system for bidirectional transmission of data and voice signals to at least one customer building, the system comprising:

a) a data network, which is connected via a satellite data transmission link for bidirectional data signal transmission to at least one local satellite device, provided in at least one customer building, the local satellite device being connected to a 10 Base S switching device via a local broadband data network cable;

b) a public telephone network, which is connected via a number of subscriber telephone lines for bidirectional voice signal transmission to the 10 Base S switching device; and

c) a number of 10 Base S subscriber modems, which are connected via local telephone lines for bidirectional voice and data signal transmission to the 10 Base S switching device;

d) wherein the data transmission link has at least one satellite as a relay station for relaying data between the at least one local satellite device and a central satellite device connected via a gateway to the data network;

e) wherein downstream data is transmitted from the local satellite device via the local broadband data network cable and the 10 Base S switching device to the 10 Base S subscriber modems over the local telephone lines in a first freguency band;

f) wherein upstream data is transmitted from the 10 Base S subscriber modems over the local telephone lines in a second frequency band to the 10 Base S switching device and via the local broadband data network cable to the local satellite device; and

g) wherein the voice signals are transmitted over the local telephone lines in a third freguency band.

2. Telecommunication system according to claim 1, wherein a data terminal for the data processing of the transmitted data signals and a telephone terminal for the transmitted voice signal can be connected to each 10 Base S subscriber modem.

3. Telecommunication system according to claim 1, wherein the satellite device has an outdoor satellite unit and indoor satellite unit.

4. Telecommunication system according to claim 3, wherein the outdoor satellite unit has a satellite antenna and a satellite signal transceiver.

5. Telecommunication system according to claim 4, wherein the outdoor satellite unit has a mechanism for pointing the satellite antenna.

6. Telecommunication system according to claim 3, wherein the indoor satellite unit has a network interface for a local data network.

7. Telecommunication system according to claim 6, wherein the local data network is an Ethernet data network.

8. Telecommunication system according to claim 7, wherein the local data network is connected to the 10 Base S switching device.

9. Telecommunication system according to claim 1, wherein the telephone lines are two-wire telephone lines.