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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2024
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., Sugar Land, TX (US);
Bao Kien, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Mark Siejka, Winder, GA (US);
Rafael Celedon, Atlanta, GA (US);
Ramesh Nallur, Duluth, GA (US);
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for communication with radio frequency (RF) amplifiers in a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network, the computer-implemented method including: providing, by one or more computer processors, return communications from one or more RF amplifiers to a headend; and providing, by the one or more computer processors, forward communications from the headend to the one or more RF amplifiers, wherein: the return communications and the forward communications use out of band (OOB) communication protocols.