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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2023
Harmonic, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Andrii Vladyka, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Nimrod Ben-Natan, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeremy C. Rosenberg, Huntingdon Valley, PA (US);
Harmonic, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Integrating support for different types of customer premises equipment on an access network. A virtual Cable Modem Termination System (vCMTS) or virtual Broadband Network Gateway (BNG), embodied in software, operates on a network and receives a packet over an upstream channel from a physical unit of customer premises equipment (CPE). Upon the vCMTS/vBNG determining that the packet is not associated with a corresponding vCPE instance, which is a software representation of the physical unit that resides upstream from the vCMTS/vBNG, the vCMTS/vBNG processes the packet and sending a response downstream to the physical unit of CPE. However, upon the vCMTS/vBNG determining that the packet is associated with a corresponding vCPE instance, the vCMTS/vBNG forwards the packet for processing to the corresponding vCPE instance over a unicast UDP tunnel which originates at the vCMTS/vBNG. The location of the vCPE may be dynamically relocated between public and private networks.