Adtran Gmbh

Neil M Jensen

Dennis B McMahan

Timothy David Rochell

Richard A Burch

Robert James Toth

Richard Lee Goodson

Daniel M Joffe

Douglas T Albright

Jared Lee Bell

Jonathan T Pardeck

Jack Atkinson

Peter S Kerr

Chip Boling

Methods, systems, and apparatus for configuring a network device are disclosed. In one aspect, a network address that is assigned to the network device by a network address server is detected by an equipment configuration device. The network address server differs from the network device. In response to detecting the network address, a set of connection parameters that connect the network device to a controller device is transmitted by the equipment configuration device and to the network device. The set of connection parameters is transmitted outside of communications, transmitted by the network address server, that assigned the network address to the network device.

Initial configuration of a remote network device

Flexibility of handling of multicast information using an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is improved by overcoming failures to respond to group specific queries. Such failures occur when heterogenous host devices are used on a common network. When a failure to respond to a group specific query is experienced, a general query is used to obtain information that was not provided by the group specific query.

Techniques for using a general query to circumvent specific query response failure in an IGMP system

An echo canceller system includes a first echo canceller having a first voltage divider and an adaptable second voltage divider that is configured to generate a first replica of an echo. A second echo canceller is configured to generate a second replica of an echo and has tap values that are generated in response to an error signal. A controller is coupled to the first and second echo cancellers and includes a selection algorithm that responds to the tap values of the second echo canceller and selects a voltage divider value for the adaptable second voltage divider.

System and method for cancelling echo in a communications line

A data transmission scheduler subsystem for a multi-channel bank communication system architecture contains a plurality of 'per port' schedulers. Each per port scheduler is resident in the system's primary channel bank, and is operative to controllably cause customer-destined data, that has been buffered from a communication network into switch fabric storage circuitry of the primary channel bank, to be controllably read out for downlink transmission to associated destination data ports of the channel banks at the destination data ports' data rates.

Primary channel bank-resident mechanism for scheduling downstream data transmissions to ports of multiple channel banks

A policing engine for use in a telecommunication equipment shelf is operative to control the rate at which customer-sourced ATM packets are passed to buffers associated with different classes of service to which customers may subscribe. The policing engine examines the rate at which ATM cells are supplied to it from the line card ports, whether the cells are AAL5 cells, and how full are the buffers into which the cells are to be written. If cells are supplied to the policing engine at a rate faster than prescribed peak or sustained cell rates, or if the cell buffer begins to fill up, the policing engine controllably discards incoming cells, thereby effectively 'throttling' the cell flow rate through it.

Policing engine providing dynamic adjustment of peak and sustained data cell rates and efficient transfer of AAL5 cells

A single switch fabric-based, multi-channel bank digital subscriber line access multiplexer includes a master channel bank containing a master switch module in which the switch fabric and a downstream-directed traffic scheduler reside, and one or more expansion channel banks that are linked with the master channel bank by way of upstream and downstream communication links. Distributed among the channel banks are respective policing mechanisms and cell rate control mechanisms that control upstream-directed communications from line card ports of each expansion channel bank to the switch fabric. Downstream data transmissions are locked to network timing, and are scheduled by a centralized scheduling mechanism resident in the master channel bank.

System architecture for linking channel banks of a data communication system

An inter-channel bank addressing and identification protocol, for use with a multi channel bank, digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM), enables the control processor of a master channel bank to selectively communicate with control processors of subtended slave channel banks, and allows a subtended slave shelf to retain provisioning information, irrespective of a change in shelf location or removal of a subtended slave shelf between the master shelf and another subtended slave shelf. The inter-channel bank addressing and identification protocol uses a shelf address code that is controllably incremented or decremented during the transport of a packet between the master and a slave shelf. In addition, a shelf address code is assigned each slave shelf during initialization. These two codes enable the master to track which channel bank is in which shelf bay.

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Madison, AL, United States of America

Neil M Jensen