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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2008
Applicant:
David W Faulkner, Suffolk, GB;
Inventor:
David W Faulkner, Suffolk, GB;
Assignee:
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, LONDON, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 9/00 (2006.01); H04M 19/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 19/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present exemplary embodiment relates to a remote powered node for a hybrid fiber-copper network. The node may be powered using the dormant copper pair(s) linking the node to the telephone exchange to carry a ringer current. The ringer current can be controlled to power all the electrical load of the node. Alternatively, the ringer current may power all of the components common to all customers served by the node, with the customers feeding power to their customer specific components via a UTP cable.