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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
William M. Plummer, McKinney, TX (US);
Rudolph B. Klecka, III, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel USA Source L.P., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/00 ;
Abstract
A telecommunications channel unit card including a subscriber bus interface for communicating subscriber bus signals with a digital loop carrier matrix, wideband channels for communicating wideband telecommunications signals with the subscriber bus interface and an external network, and at least one high-bit-rate digital subscriber line (HDSL) module capable of being coupled selectively to at least one of the wideband channels to facilitate HDSL-based communications between the telecommunications channel unit card and the external network.