Bell Communications Research, Inc.

American Telephone and Telegraph, Co.

Kenneth White Leland

Ravi Kumar Jain

Andrzej F Partyka

Hamilton W Arnold

Li-Fung Chang

Denis P Orlando

Joseph Frank Rizzo

Robert Conrad Malkemes

Wilson Fok

Shaun J Greaney

Yum Cheng Chang

Kyle Leslie Burson

Disclosed are a system and method for providing wireless access to a network, such as the internet. The disclosed technique takes into account the inherent asymmetric and bursty characteristics of internet communication to obtain more efficiency in the communication between a user and an access provider. In doing so, the invention provides a technique that can be used to economically provide wireless access to the internet at data rates that are comparable to what a user would receive over ISDN lines.

Method and system for wireless internet access

Disclosed is a telecommunication system that is both highly cost effective for small scale applications (for example, those having less than 80 lines), yet field upgrade-expandable to applications having a significant number of additional lines (for example, 30,000 lines). An integrated voice/data telecommunication system is utilized that is flexible enough to handle low bandwidth (for example 64 kbps mu-law) speech as well as high bandwidth multimedia data switching. The system may be configured as a low cost, standalone PACS system for 'village telephony' or 'PACS-on-POTS' applications, as an alternative to requirements for PACS infrastructure when appropriate wireless network facilities are unavailable.

Integrated telecommunication system architecture for wireless and

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Middletown, NJ, United States of America

Kenneth White Leland