A system and method for controlling on a worldwide basis two or more telecommunications networks which are themselves capable of exercising a form of common channel signaling network control. The system uses an architecture in which a destination telecommunications network having common channel signaling control is connected to an originating telecommunications network having common signaling control through a call set up and control methodology which provides ad hoc connection between the two s...

Telecommunications Network In a telecommunications network, a level of redundancy is often provided so that in the event of a circuit failure a back-up route may be used. A telecommunications network in which automatic switching of telecommunications traffic to back-up circuits is disclosed herein when faults are detected on a traffic carrying circuit. In particular, when dedicated private circuits develop faults, a network automatically switches traffic to a dedicated back-up circuit. Particula...

A gateway has a stack with a bearer adaptation layer and an HTTP client. The gateway may be connected by an HTTP link to an origin server and by a bearer interface to a mobile network. It may also be connected by an HTTP link to a WTA server. A context manager is a user on the stack and supports interfaces to allow access to external entities in a versatile manner. An event manager captures events including billing events and writes to an event log and to a billing log. A management entity provi...

The invention is a communications system that provides communications services to an end-user. The system includes a residential hub that is connected to the communications system over a DSL connection. The residential hub converts voice traffic to ATM for transmission over the DSL connection. The communications system includes an asynchronous communication system that is connected to a POTS system. The asynchronous communication system converts the ATM transmission to a PSTN format and transfer...

A telecommunications system comprising an intelligent network (IN) for providing IN and non-IN service creation environment function (SCEF) in which the SCEF is arranged to provide service logic and service data templates for supporting both IN and non-IN services. The service logic provided by the SCEF may either be distributed between the service control function (SCF), the service switching function (SSF) and the call control function (CCF) or located in the SCF with the SSF arranged to pass ...

The invention is a proposed extension to ISO/IEC standard 14496-6 (DMIF) and is partly described in ISO/IEC working document 14496-6 V2 WD 3.0. Specifically, the invention is a novel method for allowing the delivery of a streamed multimedia service across a heterogeneous network configuration without establishing a new session. In one embodiment, the invention is applicable to a scenario in which first and second terminals are directly connected to a first network and indirectly connected to a s...

A system and method for controlling on a worldwide basis two or more telecommunications networks which are themselves capable of exercising a form of common channel signaling network control. The system uses an architecture in which a destination telecommunications network having common channel signaling control is connected to an originating telecommunications network having common signaling control through a call set up and control methodology which provides ad hoc connection between the two s...

The invention comprises a telecommunications signaling processor that processes Signaling System #7 (SS7) telecommunications signaling messages to select Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) virtual connections and provide control messages indicating the selected ATM virtual connections.

A telecommunications system comprising one or more cross-connects and a plurality of telephone exchanges. Two or more of the telephone exchanges are arranged to communicate with each other via the one or more cross-connects. An adapter provides the telephone exchanges with inter-communication via the one or more cross-connects. The adapter converts traffic between packetized and non-packetized form.

A system and method for controlling on a worldwide basis two or more telecommunications networks which are themselves capable of exercising a form of common channel signaling network control. The system uses an architecture in which a destination telecommunications network having common channel signaling control is connected to an originating telecommunications network having common signaling control through a call set up and control methodology which provides ad hoc connection between the two s...