Method and system for a modular residential gateway

The invention is a scalable modular network system, without a fixed size enclosure, that may include many kinds of voice and data components. In operation, the invention provides trans-coding transparency allowing effective communications between dissimilar data/voice data streams. The modular system includes unique power control and distribution methods. The invention also provides the methods to simplify network-provisioning tasks because of the method of intelligently determining network information. The placement of the invention is not required to be in a central wiring location because the gateway system automatic adapts to having its components in distributed physical locations.