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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1997
Philip Hughes, Westfield, NJ (US);
Adam Stuart Kane, Morristown, NJ (US);
Kriss Kalani Replogle, Brookside, NJ (US);
Andrew Schwartz, Morris Township, Morris County, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
In a communications arrangement, a copper wire pair arrangement traditionally used to provide a plain old telephone service (POTS) is also used to provide an asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) service. To that end, a patch cord in accordance with the invention is used to re-arrange communications connections in a terminal where both POTS channel unit and ADSL channel unit are deployed. Advantageously, the combined service is efficiently realized by such a re-arrangement, with the existing POTS virtually uninterrupted.