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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2009
Valentino Liva, Los Altos, CA (US);
Alok Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Lance Smith, San Jose, CA (US);
James Yee, Union City, CA (US);
Valentino Liva, Los Altos, CA (US);
Alok Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Lance Smith, San Jose, CA (US);
James Yee, Union City, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A fiber node may include a cable modem termination system (CMTS) that includes a first receiver to receive first signals from a plurality of cable modems over a plurality of upstream channels, and extract data from the first signals; a second receiver to receive second signals, the second signals being in a different format than the first signals; and a processor, connected to the first receiver and the second receiver, to receive the extracted data from the first receiver, receive the second signals from the second receiver, compress the extracted data and the second signals, merge the extracted data and the second signals, and transmit, to an upstream facility, the merged extracted data and the second signals over a common network path.