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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1997
Ronald L Ward, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Walter C Robertson, Jr, Richardson, TX (US);
Kevin W Hager, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Alcatel USA Sourcing, L.P., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A telecommunications network (80, 120, 140) for enabling resale of local services includes a distributed switching system (88) owned by an incumbent local exchange carrier which has a call control computing platform (100) coupled to a digital loop carrier (86), where the digital loop carrier (86) is coupled to a plurality of telephone service subscribers (82) of the incumbent local exchange carrier as well as telephone service subscribers (84) of a competitive local exchange carrier. A local switch (104) owned by an incumbent local exchange carrier is coupled to the digital loop carrier (86). At least one service control point (111, 122) owned by the incumbent local exchange carrier is coupled to the call control computing platform (100) and the local switch (104), where the at least one service control point (111, 122) contains service definitions and logic of services supported by the incumbent local exchange carrier as well as service definitions and logic of services supported by the competitive local exchange carrier.