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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2009
Donald C. Sorenson, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Jiening AO, Suwanee, GA (US);
Steven E. Blashewski, Duluth, GA (US);
John W. Brickell, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Florin Farcas, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Richard J. Futch, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Joseph Graham Mobley, Dunwoody, GA (US);
John A. Ritchie, Jr., Duluth, GA (US);
Lamar E. West, Jr., Maysville, GA (US);
Donald C. Sorenson, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Jiening Ao, Suwanee, GA (US);
Steven E. Blashewski, Duluth, GA (US);
John W. Brickell, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Florin Farcas, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Richard J. Futch, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Joseph Graham Mobley, Dunwoody, GA (US);
John A. Ritchie, Jr., Duluth, GA (US);
Lamar E. West, Jr., Maysville, GA (US);
Other;
Abstract
An architecture for providing high-speed access over frequency-division multiplexed (FDM) channels allows transmission of Ethernet frames and/or other data across a cable transmission network or other form of FDM transport. The architecture involves downstream and upstream FDM multiplexing techniques to allow contemporaneous, parallel communications across a plurality of frequency channels. Furthermore, the architecture allows a central concentrator to support a plurality of remote devices that each has guaranteed bandwidth through connection-oriented allocations of bi-directional data flows. The upstream and downstream bandwidth allocation can support symmetrical bandwidth as well as asymmetrical bandwidth in either direction. As a local network, the architecture supports guaranteed bandwidth for delivery of data flows to a plurality of host devices.