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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2004
Yihsiu Chen, Middletown, NJ (US);
Mark Jeffrey Foladare, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Samuel Glazer, New York, NY (US);
Shelly B. Goldman, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Thaddeus Julius Kowalski, Summit, NJ (US);
Yihsiu Chen, Middletown, NJ (US);
Mark Jeffrey Foladare, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Samuel Glazer, New York, NY (US);
Shelly B. Goldman, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Thaddeus Julius Kowalski, Summit, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a system and method for failing over from a current network access medium to an alternative network access medium. A customer premises equipment (CPE) box has ports for connections to a network through several network access media, such as high speed cable connections, DSL connections and dial-up connections. QoS parameters for each of the connections are monitored from a bandwidth manager remote from the CPE box. When it is determined that a fail-over would be beneficial, a message is sent from the bandwidth manager to the CPE box containing a command to fail-over and an identity of the alternate network access media.