At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

At+t Corp.

Shelly B Goldman

Mark Jeffrey Foladare

Yihsiu Chen

Thaddeus Julius Kowalski

Samuel Glazer

Roy Philip Weber

David Phillip Silverman

The present invention is a system and method for failing over from a current network access medium to an alternative network access medium. A customer premises equipment (CPE) box has ports for connections to a network through several network access media, such as high speed cable connections, DSL connections and dial-up connections. QoS parameters for each of the connections are monitored from a bandwidth manager remote from the CPE box. When it is determined that a fail-over would be beneficial, a message is sent from the bandwidth manager to the CPE box containing a command to fail-over and an identity of the alternate network access media.

Multiple media fail-over to alternate media

A system and method for secure communication of access information codes to access a telecommunications network and use network services, such as a personal reach service. In that regard, the present invention communicates the access information with the network over a secure paging channel. When call for the user is received at a personal reach service node, a paging message is transmitted to the user through a paging system, the paging message indicating that the call has been received. The user then places a call to the personal reach service node. Upon receiving the call from the user, a request for access information is transmitted to the user. The user then transmits a paging signal from a two-way pager, the paging signal including an indicator of the access information. The personal reach service node receives the indicator of the access information from the user through the paging system and validates the indicated access information. If the indicated access information is valid access is granted to the personal reach service and the two calls are connected to each other.

Secure communication of access information

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