Abstract: An apparatus and method for security of individual communications over a composite communications channel such as T1 or E1.
The composite channel is digitized. Individual channels are separated, but identifying information of each channel is retained. A level of security can be chosen for each channel by digitally processing the selected call with a selected level of scrambling or encryption prior to passing the call to an end-user.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 31, 1997
Date of Patent:
July 3, 2001
Assignee:
Transcript International, Inc.
Inventors:
Douglas E. Ehlers, Christopher Aaron Hall, James R. Holthaus