Alcatel USA Sourcing, L.p.

Catherine A Millet

Jason W Dove

K Martin Stevenson, Iii

Farzad S Nabavi

Stephen Lewis

A telephony and video telecommunications distribution network ( ) includes a broadband fiber bank section ( ) within a digital loop carrier system ( ). The broadband fiber bank section ( ) receives video information from a stored video information provider ( ) through a broadband asynchronous transfer mode switch ( ). The video information is received in an asynchronous transfer mode cell format. The digital loop carrier system ( ) receives telephony traffic from a telephony network ( ) at a common control section ( ). The common control section ( ) passes the telephony traffic to the broadband fiber bank section ( ) where it is converted into asynchronous transfer mode cell form. The broadband fiber bank section ( ) multiplexes video asynchronous transfer mode cells and telephony asynchronous transfer mode cells for transport to an optical network unit ( ) over a fiber optic communication link ( ).

Telecommunications switch for providing telephony traffic integrated with video information services

A telephone and video telecommunications distribution network (10) includes a telecommunications switch (12) and an optical network unit configuration (20b). The telecommunications switch (12) receives telephony traffic at a common control section (14) and video information at a video bank section (18). The video bank section receives telephony traffic from the common control section (14) and places the telephony traffic into telephony ATM cells. Video information is carried in video ATM cells. The Video Dank section (18) multiplexes telephony ATM cells and video ATM cells onto a fiber optic communication link for transport to the optical network unit configuration (20b). The optical network unit configuration (20b) includes a full service optical line unit (80) that segregates telephony ATM cells from video ATM cells. The full service optical line unit (80) transfers video ATM cells to a video brick (31) for processing. The full service optical line unit extracts telephony traffic from the telephony ATM cells for transport to a conventional optical network unit (82).

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