Telecommunications system, method of configuring same and operating a telecommunications system

• US 7,616,952 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2005
• Issued: 11/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tenovis GmbH & Company KG (Avaya Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Tenovis GmbH & Company KG (Avaya Incorporated)
• Inventors: Rodewald, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; CongVan
• Application Number:
  US11/083,099
• Publication Number:
  US 20050245255A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,700 Days
• Field of Search: 455/428, 455/422.1, 455/12.1, 455/445, 455/550.1, 455/552.1, 455/553.1, 455/554.1, 455/554.2, 455/555, 455/427, 455/403, 370/331, 370/401
• US Class Current: 455/428
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13034 A/D conversion, code compression/expansion
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13039 Asymmetrical two-way transmission, e.g. ADSL, HDSL
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13098 Mobile subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13107 Control equipment for a part of the connection, distributed control, co-processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13202 Network termination [NT]
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/1322 PBX
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13298 Local loop systems, access network
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13384 Inter-PBX traffic, PBX networks, e.g. corporate networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/62 for connecting to private branch exchanges
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

A telecommunication system has a multiplicity of clients each with a multiplicity of subscribers connected by an access device to a long-distance network with a telecommunication apparatus for exchange (PDX). According to the invention between that network and the access device a wireless stretch is formed which can include a satellite link, a UMTS link, a WLAM link or WMAN link.

Claims

1. A method of configuring a telecommunications system having:

telecommunications equipment;

a multiplicity of telecommunication terminals connected to the equipment;

a plurality of access devices; and

a long-distance transmission network including a wireless transmission link and connected to at least one of the telecommunication terminals and to the equipment, the method comprising the steps of;

configuring the telecommunications network and the terminals to communicate through the network with a private signaling protocol;

allocating resources of the telecommunications equipment to wired long-distance transmission paths or directly to wireless transmission paths;

assigning the long-distance transmission paths to wireless transmission paths;

channeling signals in the long-distance transmission paths to an antenna;

transmitting the channeled signals with the private protocol from the antenna;

assigning a respective wireless transmission path or respective wired long-distance transmission path to the respective access device; and

assigning a respective access device to the respective terminal device.

2. A method of operating a telecommunications system having:

telecommunications equipment;

a multiplicity of telecommunication terminals connected to the equipment;

a plurality of access devices; and

a long-distance network having a wireless communication link and connected to at least one of the telecommunication terminals and to the equipment, the method comprising the steps of;

configuring the telecommunications network and the terminals to communicate through the network with a private signaling protocol;

switching communications between the telecommunications equipment and the access device at least in part over transmission paths including a wireless transmission path by channeling the communications using the private protocol to an antenna and transmitting the channeled communications from the antenna;

receiving a call; and

switching a connection from the telecommunication network to a terminal device through the wireless transmission path.

3. A telecommunications system comprising:

telecommunications equipment having a range of functions;

a multiplicity of telecommunication terminals remote from the equipment, the telecommunication equipment and the terminals being configured to communicate via a private signaling protocol; and

a long-distance transmission network using the private protocol connected between the telecommunication terminals and the equipment and including

a wireless link,

a transmitting antenna,

respective access devices at the telecommunication terminals, and

means for channeling information to the antenna using the private protocol so that each of the telecommunication terminals can use all the functions of the equipment.

4. The telecommunications system defined in claim 3 wherein the wireless communication link comprises a UMTS link.

5. The telecommunications system defined in claim 3 wherein the wireless communication link comprises a WLAN link for small distances or a WMAN link for intermediate distances.

6. The telecommunications system defined in claim 3 wherein the telecommunications equipment includes a radio transmitter connected to the telecommunications network.

7. The telecommunications system defined in claim 3 wherein the access devices each include a respective radio receiver.

8. The telecommunications system defined in claim 3 wherein each access device is integrated into the respective terminal.

9. The telecommunications system defined in claim 3, configured for use by a number of customers independently of one another.

10. The telecommunications system defined in claim 3 wherein the wireless communication link comprises a satellite link.

11. A method operating a telecommunications system comprising:

telecommunications equipment having a range of functions;

a multiplicity of telecommunication terminals remote from the equipment; and

a long-distance transmission network connected between the telecommunication terminals and the equipment and including

a wireless link,

a transmitting antenna,

respective access devices at the telecommunication terminals, and

means for channeling information with the private protocol to the antenna so that each of the telecommunication terminals can use all the functions of the equipment, the method comprising the steps of;

configuring the telecommunications network and the terminals to communicate through the network with a private signaling protocol;

switching communications between the telecommunications equipment and the access devices at least in part over transmission paths including the wireless link by channeling the communications using the private protocol to the antenna and transmitting the channeled communications using the private protocol from the antenna;

receiving a call; and

switching a connection from the telecommunication network to a terminal through the wireless transmission path.