Systems and methods of decoding and processing transactions for an addressable cable television tap

An addressable tap coupled to a distribution system for controlling and splitting signals and providing the signals to receiving equipment, the addressable tap comprising:

• ports for receiving an input signal and for providing outgoing signals to the receiving equipment;
• a faceplate assembly having a front-end board, a power supply board, and a switchboard;
• a controller for providing addressable per port switching, the controller adapted to communicate with multiple addressable ports, the controller for processing the signals and routing commands from the processed signals to an appropriate addressable port;
• and
• a memory for storing unprocessed commands as flags in a queue,
• wherein the signals include an address that is associated with each addressable port,
• wherein a connect command is stored as a flag in the queue after two consecutive connect command transactions are received from a head end, and a disconnect command is stored as a flag in the queue after four consecutive disconnect command transactions are received from the head end, and a port refresh command is stored for later processing if a previously received command is currently processing, and
• wherein a first received command for a first port is processed and a second received command for a second port different from the first port is buffered, using the flags in the queue, until the processing of the first received command is complete.