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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2012
Andrea Garavaglia, Nuremberg, DE;
Juan Montojo, Nuremberg, DE;
Christian Pietsch, Nuremberg, DE;
Stephen J. Shellhammer, San Diego, CA (US);
Nicola Varanese, Nuremberg, DE;
Andrea Garavaglia, Nuremberg, DE;
Juan Montojo, Nuremberg, DE;
Christian Pietsch, Nuremberg, DE;
Stephen J. Shellhammer, San Diego, CA (US);
Nicola Varanese, Nuremberg, DE;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A media converter is to be coupled to an optical line terminal via an optical link and to a plurality of coax network units via coax links in a cable plant. The media converter includes an optical physical-layer device to receive and transmit optical signals via the optical link and a coax physical-layer device to receive and transmit electrical signals via the coax links. The media converter also includes an implementation of an optical-coax convergence layer to schedule transmissions of electrical signals from the plurality of coax network units by allocating coax resources among the plurality of coax network units in accordance with resource allocation for the optical link.