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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert C Loveless, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Assignee:
Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., Norcross, GA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455426 ; 455467 ; 455560 ;
Abstract
A communications system includes first and second fiber optic links, each including at least one fiber optic cable, and a coaxial distribution plant including coaxial distribution lines and a plurality of amplifiers. A first fiber optic node couples the first fiber optic link to the coaxial distribution plant and a second fiber optic node located proximate to one of the amplifiers of the coaxial distribution plant couples the second fiber optic link to the coaxial distribution plant.