A highly flexible small digital telephone system

Author

Robertson, David ; Chapman, Alan ; Williams, Bill

Author_Institution

Bell-Northern Res. Ltd., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

1990

fDate

16-19 Apr 1990

Firstpage

128

Abstract

An architecture and design for a highly flexible, cost-effective, small-business telephone system are described. Targeted at businesses having up to 100 telephones, the system attributes include very simple operation and installation, and a fully digital design, made cost effective through custom silicon integration and a novel architecture. The architecture, based on an intelligent station set software model and functional message broadcast, allows externally connected servers, such as personal computers, to extend the call-processing functionality of the system. The design forms the basis of Northern Telecom´s Meridan Norstar key system product

Keywords

automatic telephone systems; digital communication systems; private telephone exchanges; Meridan Norstar key system; Northern Telecom; PBX; call-processing functionality; cost-effective; digital telephone system; externally connected servers; functional message broadcast; intelligent station set software model; personal computers; small-business telephone system; Computer architecture; Costs; Displays; ISDN; Manufacturing; Microcomputers; Silicon; Switches; Telecommunications; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1990. ICC '90, Including Supercomm Technical Sessions. SUPERCOMM/ICC '90. Conference Record., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1990.117059

Filename

117059