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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2012
Niki Pantelias, Duluth, GA (US);
Lisa Denney, Suwanee, GA (US);
Edward Boyd, Petaluma, CA (US);
Andres Alvarez, Suwanee, GA (US);
Scott Hollums, Duluth, GA (US);
Niki Pantelias, Duluth, GA (US);
Lisa Denney, Suwanee, GA (US);
Edward Boyd, Petaluma, CA (US);
Andres Alvarez, Suwanee, GA (US);
Scott Hollums, Duluth, GA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A cable modem that supports stateless requesting and/or limited contention-based requesting is provided herein. In an example, a physical layer (PHY) configured to communicate over a plurality of upstream channels is provided. A bandwidth requester is provided to request bandwidth using contention-based requesting over a first subset of the upstream channels for contention-based flows and request bandwidth using stateless requesting over a second subset of the upstream channels for stateless flows.