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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2008
Alon Bernstein, San Jose, CA (US);
John Skrobko, Berkeley Lake, GA (US);
John T. Chapman, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Alon Bernstein, San Jose, CA (US);
John Skrobko, Berkeley Lake, GA (US);
John T. Chapman, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for use in an RFoG cable network calls for allocating upstream bandwidth to CM devices, wherein allocating bandwidth includes selecting a start time and allocating respective time slots relative to the selected start time to at least one of the requesting CM devices; and further, allocating the same timeslots over multiple selected upstream channels, thereby aligning upstream transmissions from the requesting CMs across the selected upstream channels. Several embodiments are disclosed to enable DOCSIS 3.0 type scheduling over an RFoG network.