Cmts plant topology fault management
AssigneeArris
InventorWilliam T. Hanks
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Abstract
A cable television plant may include fiber nodes, cable modems, a management information base (MIB), and a cable modem termination system (CMTS). The CMTS may include logic to apply information from the MIB to determine the suitability of resources assigned to the fiber nodes from particular MAC domains for providing data communications.
Claims12
A cable modem termination system comprising:
- logic to verify that a media access control (MAC) domain is suitable for providing service to cable modems which are connected to a fiber node.
A cable television plant comprising fiber nodes, cable modems, a management information base (MIB), and a cable modem termination system (CMTS), the CMTS comprising logic to apply information from the MIB to determine a suitability for providing data communications of resources assigned to the fiber nodes from particular MAC domains.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.