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Automated ethernet configuration of CATV network

  • US 20050254523A1
  • Filed: 05/12/2004
  • Published: 11/17/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a cable distribution network environment that includes a cable hub and a cable node, the cable node capable of transmitting RF data and Ethernet data over a return path to the cable hub, a method for the cable node to configure the cable hub to receive Ethernet data in addition to RF data from the cable node, wherein bandwidth for the Ethernet data may be made available by applying a compression algorithm to the RF data, the method comprising the following:

  • an act of the cable node transmitting mode information to the cable hub, the mode information at least inferring that the cable node will be transmitting Ethernet data to the cable hub;

    an act of the cable node compressing RF data using a compression algorithm; and

    after the act of the cable node transmitting mode information to the cable hub, an act of the cable node transmitting Ethernet data and the compressed RF data to the cable hub.

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