Highly reliable backbone video distribution architecture
OwnerMartin Birk, Kathleen Tse +1inventors
InventorsMartin Birk, Kathleen Tse, Simon Zelingher
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Abstract
An optical network for providing a plurality of end users with video content, which includes a plurality of video head ends, each coupled to a pair of video hub offices via a plurality of diverse optical communication paths, where each hub office is coupled to a plurality of video serving offices via a pair of optical fibers arranged in a ring structure to provide a working link and a protection link, each video serving office adapted and arranged for distributing video content to a plurality of end users.
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A network for providing a plurality of end users with multimedia content, comprising:
- a plurality of video head ends, each coupled to a pair of video hub offices via a plurality of diverse communication paths, where each hub office is coupled to a plurality of video serving offices, each video serving office for distributing multimedia content to a plurality of end users.
An optical network for providing a plurality of end users with video content, comprising:
- a plurality of video head ends, each coupled to a pair of video hub offices via a plurality of diverse optical communication paths, where each hub office is coupled to a plurality of video serving offices via a plurality of optical fibers, each video serving office for distributing video content to a plurality of end users.
An optical network for providing a plurality of end users with video content, comprising:
- a plurality of video head ends, each coupled to a pair of video hub offices via a plurality of diverse optical communication paths, where each hub office is coupled to a plurality of video serving offices via a pair of optical fibers arranged in a ring structure to provide a working link and a protection link, each video serving office for distributing video content to a plurality of end users.
A method for providing a plurality of end users with multimedia content, comprising:
- communicating multimedia content from a plurality of video head ends to a pair of video hub offices via a plurality of diverse communication paths, where each hub office is coupled to a plurality of video serving offices, each video serving office for distributing multimedia content to a plurality of end users.
A method for providing a plurality of end users with multimedia content, where each end user is served by at least one video serving office, comprising:
- communicating multimedia content from a plurality of video head ends to a pair of video hub offices via a plurality of diverse communication paths.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.