Integration of an IP private branch exchange with a telecommunication switch provides users with additional features

摘要

Call features such as available to subscribers of a Centrex telecommunications system are made available to subscribers using internet protocol telephone sets. An internet protocol peripheral unit provides an interface between conventional IP packets utilized by IP telephone sets and the required message and signaling required by a packet line truck unit associated with a switch module of the switch. This permits IP telephone set users to be able to access the applications processor and its associated directory database. Such access is needed to implement certain call features.