Adtran Gmbh

Gary M Willoughby

W Stuart Venters

Robert James Toth

Michael Scott Sansom

Kevin W Schneider

Philip David Williams

John B Wilkes, Jr

Lonnie S McMillian

Thomas L Ballard, Iii

Roger W Cain

Mark Jeffries Ogden

An integrated system concurrently connects voice and data communications devices used by small and medium sized businesses to a network T1 data line terminating at the customer premises. A system chassis includes multiple slots and backplane connectors for removably receiving a bank controller unit (BCU), power service unit (PSU), and one or more different types of smart and dumb voice and data access modules that provide the functional interface to the customer premises equipment. The BCU controls the operation of the system, which can be configured by the customer through an external terminal interface.

Modular system for connecting multiple customer premises voice and data communications devices to a T1 data line

Relatively low cost asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) service and auxiliary POTS service are delivered over extended distances (e.g., at least 20&#x2013;25 kft), by a hybrid ADSL-SDSL architecture insertable between central office and remote sites of an ADSL system. Central office and remote site transceivers employ trellis coded pulse amplitude modulation and a data rate that conforms with the signal transport capability of an extended distance symmetric DSL (SDSL) loop, while providing a 64K POTS channel. The central office and remote site transceivers controllably insert idle asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cells in upstream and downstream ADSL channels to compensate for timing differences with ADSL equipment.

System for providing extended range ADSL service with auxiliary pots channel over single-line digital subscriber link

To extend the transmission distance for basic rate integrated services digital network (ISDN) communications between a first site and a second site, the basic rate ISDN channel is demultiplexed onto a pair of half-rate digital subscriber loop channels, which employ an out of band maintenance channel to convey differential delay compensation information, but without modifying the framing structure of the transported channels, or requiring additional bandwidth for a separate framing channel. Halving the data rate, to increase the distance over which the basic rate ISDN channel may be transported, operates as a trade-off against loop loss, while still complying with ANSI standards.

Four-wire, half-rate architecture with embedded differential delay

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Harvest, AL, United States of America

Gary M Willoughby