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Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 17, 2020
Applicant:

Harmonic, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventor:

Adi Bonen, Belle Mead, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Harmonic, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04B 10/2575 (2013.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04B 17/00 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/2575 (2013.01); H04B 17/0085 (2013.01); H04N 21/61 (2013.01);
Abstract

Propagating a leakage test signal at a frequency receivable by traditional leakage test systems while supporting enhanced upstream peak data rates. At an input of an amplifier of a device, a portion of the leakage test signal is tapped to create a tapped signal, which comprises both the leakage test signal and all other downstream signals and channels sent from a head-end to a set of customer premises equipment (CPE) via the device. The tapped signal is introduced to a filter that passes the leakage test signal and attenuates all other radio frequency (RF) signals to create a filtered leakage test signal. The filtered leakage test signal is amplified and coupled to a low-pass side of a high-split diplex filter to propagate onto a transmission medium coupled to the HFC plant receivable by a traditional leakage test system. The device may be a high-split RF amplifier or a high-split node.


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