Abstract: In current voice telephony, CATV, and wireless networks, traffic is channelized for both access and transport, requiring a dedication of a fixed bandwidth end-to-end for the duration of a service connection. This channelization is wasteful of resources where multiple services have varying demands for bandwidth and holding times, or a service generates traffic that is bursty in nature. The invention addresses these problems by providing flexible and adaptable multiservice access to the networks. Customer requirements are checked by monitoring traffic on a local access at a connection request and/or during the established connection, and local access is configured according to transmission requirements. Customer traffic is segregated and routed to the appropriate network. One of the embodiments uses 2B1Q line coding and implements a novel protocol to perform the functions of the invention.