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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2006
Daniel K. Chappell, Greenwood, IN (US);
Daniel K. Chappell, Greenwood, IN (US);
Acterna LLC, Germantown, MD (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a system for end-of-line monitoring of HFC networks by using a main tuner dedicated to receiving measurement requests from a network monitoring server via a DOCSIS downstream channel, and an auxiliary tuner used for the purpose of performing measurements of the downstream channel by analogue and digital measurement circuits. A cable modem is used to transmit measurement results to the server over a DOCSIS upstream channel. The addition of the auxiliary tuner, permits faster measurements to be performed by the EOL monitoring system and reported back to the server, thereby affording real-time remote testing and diagnostics.