U S West, Inc.

Mediaone Group, Inc.

Comcast Mo Group, Inc.

James H Starr

Gregory Joseph Beveridge

Louis A Cox, Jr

Stephen L Bulick

K David Lin

Margarete A Ralston

Stephen Bulick

Gregory J Beveridge

An architecture for providing interactive broadband products and services uses existing cable and telephone plant. The architecture includes a central office switch in communication with a head-end server and a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) device such as, for example, a modem emulator, data terminal, set-top terminal or personal computer. The CPE device is provided in communication with the head-end server via cable plant for downstream broadcasts and is further provided in communication with a central office switch via telephone plant for upstream signaling and downstream control messages.

Architecture and method for providing interactive broadband products and

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Littleton, CO, United States of America

James H Starr