Method for monitoring the quality of a transmission channel and a digital receiver

Abstract

The invention pertains to a method for monitoring the quality of a transmission channel in a digital system, wherein a signal is received from a transmission network (12), various data related to the operation of the transmission channel are measured from the received signal, said data are stored in the memory (25) of the receiver unit (20) and the data stored in the memory (25) are transferred through a return channel (27) to a transmission center. In addition, the invention pertains to a digital receiver (20) comprising means (21, 22) for measuring data related to the operation of a transmission channel from a received signal and means (24) for storing the data related to the operation of a transmission channel in a memory (25) and transferring the data stored in the memory (25) through a return channel (27) to a transmission center (11).

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