TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH A MULTI-CHANNEL DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE INTERFACE AND METHOD

摘要

A telecommunication system having a central office switch connected with a subscriber through an asymmetric digital subscriber line service via a single twisted pair loop with a ATM multi-channel voice interface for converting telephonic voice traffic from additional telephones of the subscriber to a stream of voice data in logical channel associated with the additional telephones and having associated individual telephone directory numbers. The voice data is inserted into high speed data segment of the asymmetric digital subscriber line service on a dynamic basis prior to transmission to the central office switch via the twisted pair from the subscriber and a central office ATM multi-channel voice interface.