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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2018
Applicant:
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Inventors:
Stephen Beaumont, London, GB;
Jonathan Hitchen, London, GB;
Assignee:
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/46 (2015.01); H04B 3/48 (2015.01); H04M 3/24 (2006.01); H04M 3/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/48 (2013.01); H04M 3/247 (2013.01); H04M 3/305 (2013.01); H04M 2201/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a method of measuring the effectiveness of an intervention in a hybrid fiber-metal access network. The effectiveness measure is determined in accordance with the improvement in the attenuation and the maximum achievable data rate. The effectiveness measure is used to determine whether a further network intervention is required.