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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard R. Dziekan, North Wales, PA (US);
Nicholas D. Lee, King of Prussia, PA (US);
M. Lamine Sylla, New Britain, PA (US);
Jonathan A. Weinstock, Doylestown, PA (US);
Assignee:
General Instrument Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/14 ;
Abstract
A hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) access network manager is formed to support a variety of functions related to the operation and management of an HCF access plant. The network manager includes a topology discovery module that can function either automatically, or under control of a command from the access network manager, to poll individual network elements to identify their type and location, thus creating a topological map of the network. The polling can be accomplished in either the analog or digital domain.