Wideband cable system
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a wideband cable modem configured to receive and decode a logical wideband channel received over a plurality of downstream Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) channels, wherein the logical wideband channel spans across a first combination of some of the downstream QAM channels at a first time and a second different combination of some of the downstream QAM channels at a second later time; and
the wideband cable modem configured to monitor all the downstream QAM channels for packets having a particular packet identifier value that correlates said packets to the logical wideband channel, to track dynamic utilization of the downstream QAM channels by the logical wideband channel over the first and second times according to the monitoring;
wherein the correlated packets include Vertical Alignment Indexes (VAIs) to identify temporal positions of said packets in the plurality of downstream QAM channels, and wherein the wideband cable modem is configured to use the VAIs to temporally realign the packets received over the first combination and the second different combination of the downstream QAM channels.
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Abstract
A wideband cable modem system increases available bandwidth of a single channel by encoding a data stream into wideband packets. The wideband packets are associated with a logical wideband channel that extends over multiple physical downstream cable channels.
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a wideband cable modem configured to receive and decode a logical wideband channel received over a plurality of downstream Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) channels, wherein the logical wideband channel spans across a first combination of some of the downstream QAM channels at a first time and a second different combination of some of the downstream QAM channels at a second later time; and the wideband cable modem configured to monitor all the downstream QAM channels for packets having a particular packet identifier value that correlates said packets to the logical wideband channel, to track dynamic utilization of the downstream QAM channels by the logical wideband channel over the first and second times according to the monitoring; wherein the correlated packets include Vertical Alignment Indexes (VAIs) to identify temporal positions of said packets in the plurality of downstream QAM channels, and wherein the wideband cable modem is configured to use the VAIs to temporally realign the packets received over the first combination and the second different combination of the downstream QAM channels. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method, comprising:
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receiving and decoding a logical wideband channel received over a plurality of downstream Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) channels, wherein the logical wideband channel spans across a first combination of some of the downstream QAM channels at a first time and a second different combination of some of the downstream QAM channels at a second later time; and monitoring all the downstream QAM channels for packets having a particular packet identifier value that correlates said packets to the logical wideband channel, to track dynamic utilization of the downstream QAM channels by the logical wideband channel over the first and second times according to the monitoring; wherein the correlated packets include Vertical Alignment Indexes (VAIs) to identify temporal positions of said packets in the plurality of downstream QAM channels, and wherein the method further comprises using the VAIs to temporally realign the packets received over the first combination and the second different combination of the downstream QAM channels. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
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receiving and decoding a logical wideband channel received over a plurality of downstream Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) channels, wherein the logical wideband channel spans across a first combination of some of the downstream QAM channels at a first time and a second different combination of some of the downstream QAM channels at a second later time; and monitoring all the downstream QAM channels for packets having a particular packet identifier value that correlates said packets to the logical wideband channel, to track dynamic utilization of the downstream QAM channels by the logical wideband channel over the first and second times according to the monitoring; wherein the correlated packets include Vertical Alignment Indexes (VAIs) to identify temporal positions of said packets in the plurality of downstream QAM channels, and wherein the operations further comprise using the VAIs to temporally realign the packets received over the first combination and the second different combination of the downstream QAM channels. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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