Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel

Geert Heyninck

Geert Bert Ysebaert

Ivan Verbesselt

Ruben Catteeuw

In one embodiment the method includes assigning a common frequency range over which first sets of carriers are configured for communication over respective ones of a plurality of subscriber lines. The plurality of subscriber lines are dispatched between a plurality of autonomous vectoring processors configured to mitigate crosstalk between subscriber lines coupled thereto, thereby organizing the plurality of subscriber lines into a plurality of distinct vectoring groups. The method includes assigning a plurality of additional disjoint frequency ranges to respective ones of the plurality of vectoring groups over which second sets of carriers are configured for enhanced communication over respective ones of the plurality of subscriber lines. The second sets of carriers are configured over the respective disjoint frequency ranges assigned to the respective vectoring groups which the respective subscriber lines belong to.

Enhanced vectoring operation with single loop unbundling

A method is described for setting up or releasing a connection between a first terminal connected to a local area network and a second terminal connected to an ATM network, both networks being intercoupled by means of a network termination apparatus. The signalling functionality is performed within a predetermined terminal connected to the local area network in stead of within the network termination apparatus, which merely converts and transfers the ATM signalling protocol messages into LAN messages for delivery to the predetermined terminal and vice-versa. The invention also relates to such a predetermined terminal, a network termination apparatus and a terminal to be connected to a local area network, for performing the above described methods and some variants.

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Antwerp, Belgium

Geert Heyninck