摘要 |
The invention provides method and apparatus for transporting tone signalling information through a GCME link in a GSM network supporting TFO and speech compression modes for the passage of signals through the link, respectively using TFO frames and TRAU-like In a data stream to the local entrance to the GCME link, a tone signal to be transported is detected. The detected tone signal is coded into bits of a TFO or TRAU-like frame for sending through the GCME link, including setting bits to mark the frame as a containing tone signalling information and setting bits to identify the detected tone signal, whereby the tone signalling information is transported in-band through the GCME link as a marked TFO or TRAU-like frame. At the remote exit from the GCME link, the marked frame is detected and the tone signal regenerated in dependence upon the bits of the marked frame.
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