Access Server: Facilitating Carrier-Scale Packet Telephony
John M. Fossaceca, James D. Sandoz, Philip Winterbottom · 1998
®operating system with access and interconnection technologies developed by the Switching, Access, and Data Networking areas of Lucent Technologies. The PathStar Access Server combines the functionality and features of traditional circuit switches with advanced packet routing techniques to enable endto-end converged network solutions. This paper presents an overview of the PathStar Access Server and briefly explores its hardware and software architectures.