Bell Communications Research, Inc.

Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

Shaun J Greaney

Kenneth W Leland

Kenneth White Leland

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.

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Tinton Falls, NJ, United States of America

Shaun J Greaney