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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1995
Michael D Turner, Madison, AL (US);
Kevin W Schneider, Huntsville, AL (US);
Richard A Burch, Madison, AL (US);
Richard L Goodson, Huntsville, AL (US);
Adtran, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
The range of digital data communication services, such as a basic rate 2B1Q ISDN channel, to customer premises located beyond the industry standard achievable range of a two-wire loop can be extended by increasing the capacity of the ISDN line code from two information bits per symbol to three information bits per symbol, so as to reduce the effective symbol rate, which is error correction encoded to an effective 4B1H line code for defining a sixteen level PAM signal waveform, and employing enhanced low signal-to-noise ratio signal processing techniques in both the transmitter and receiver to accommodate the increased insertion loss of the two-wire line resulting from its extended length. Such enhanced low signal-to-noise ratio signal processing techniques include a Tomlinson precoder in the transmitter, and an adaptive linear equalizer and a module unit in the receiver.