System and method for the improved provision of user bands via one or more single-cable interfaces

A system for the provision of multiple multi-user band transmissions to a media gateway appliance, comprising:

• a plurality of single-cable interface devices, each of which is adapted to:
• receive at least one intermediate-frequency signal;
• separate the received intermediate-frequency signal into n input banks, where n is greater than 1;
• map each of the n input banks on to an individual one of n user bands;
• and
• output the n user bands via a single output cable;
• and
• at least one media gateway appliance adapted to concurrently receive the single cable outputs from each of the plurality of single-cable interface devices, the at least one media gateway appliance comprising:
• at least one output;
• a plurality of tuners;
• a switching fabric adapted to selectively link any single one of the received single cable outputs with at least one of the plurality of tuners;
• and
• at least one controller;
• adapted to:
• instruct the switching fabric to link at least a one particular received single cable output with at least one particular tuner:
• instruct the at least one particular tuner to tune to a particular one of the n user bands evident upon a received single cable output and extract program content therefrom;
• and
• route the extracted program content to the at least one output.