Abstract: A telecommunications channel unit card including a subscriber bus interface for communicating subscriber bus signals with a digital loop carrier matrix, wideband channels for communicating wideband telecommunications signals with the subscriber bus interface and an external network, and at least one high-bit-rate digital subscriber line (HDSL) module capable of being coupled selectively to at least one of the wideband channels to facilitate HDSL-based communications between the telecommunications channel unit card and the external network.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 27, 1998
Date of Patent:
March 27, 2001
Assignee:
Alcatel USA Source L.P.
Inventors:
William M. Plummer, Rudolph B. Klecka, III