Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

Philip Rosenberg-Watt

Luther E Smith

Carmela Stuart

Jonathan Ray Dennis

Luis Alberto Campos

Bernardo A Huberman

Bernard Richard McKibben

Jason W Rupe

Martha Lurie Lyons

Bernard McKIBBEN

An ad-hoc wireless network is implemented by a plurality of wireless access points to detect and report failure of a concurrently implemented conventional network. The wireless access points collect and store network status information of the conventional network and send the network status information to a centralized emergency manager when failure of the conventional network is detected. The ad-hoc wireless network may also provide backhaul connectivity to a wireless access point of the failed conventional network for emergency communication.

Ad-hoc wireless mesh network system and methodology for failure reporting and emergency communications

A method for redundant communication at a network gateway includes (1) exchanging data packets with a network application via a first access communication interface, (2) exchanging data packets with customer premises equipment (CPE) via a local communication interface, and (3) in response to occurrence of a first event, exchanging at least some data packets with the network application via a second access communication interface that is different from the first access communication interface.

Network gateways with redundant communication capability, and associated methods

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Superior, CO, United States of America

Philip Rosenberg-Watt