System and method for communicating traffic between a cell site and a central office in a telecommunications network

摘要

A communication system includes a cell site router that receives a voice traffic stream in a layer two based protocol. The cell site router removes redundant information to generate a compressed stream of payloads from the layer two based protocol voice traffic stream. The cell site router sorts each payload of the compressed stream according to its intended destination and generates a layer two packet for each group of payloads of the compressed stream having a same intended destination. The cell site router prioritizes for transmission each layer two packet with other packets not carrying the voice traffic stream and having the same intended destination The communication system also includes an aggregation node that receives packets from the cell site router. The aggregation node separates layer two packets from the other packets and extracts each payload from each of the layer two packets. The aggregation node decompresses each payload carried by the layer two packet and forwards each payload towards its intended destination.