Arris Enterprises LLC

Russell L Holm

Carol J Ansley

Cliff D Aaby

Ting Ning

A method for providing data streams to a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE) devices communicatively coupled to a network is provided. Downstream network plant and CPE correlation information is generated with a digital controller that has access to a database including at least one of CPE control information, subscriber management information, security and access information, provisioning information, billing information, application traffic information, and configuration information. A plurality of data streams is provided as Protocol Independent Multicasts (PIM) streams to the plurality of CPE devices, and each of the CPE devices is provided with Multicast Address information relative to the PIM streams to permit auto-discovery by each of the CPE devices of appropriate PIM streams. An apparatus for preforming the above method is also disclosed.

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Renton, WA, United States of America

Russell L Holm