ATM extended autoregistration and VPI/VCI assignment in a hybrid

Details ATM extended autoregistration and VPI/VCI assignment in a hybrid ATM extended autoregistration and VPI/VCI assignment in a hybrid

1995-09-27

1998-03-31

Ton, Dang

Multiplex communications

Pathfinding or routing

Switching a message which includes an address header

370397, H04L 1256

Patent

active

057346526

ABSTRACT:
Described herein is an ATM cable network having a plurality of ATM subscriber interface units or set-top boxes (STBs) in individual neighborhood homes. A coax distribution plant provides a plurality of communication channels between the STBs and the a neighborhood node. A cable headend serves the neighborhood node and its associated STBs through a fiber-optic trunk providing a plurality of different communication channels or frequencies. The headend includes an ATM node switch having switch ports associated with each of the different communication channels. An access resource manager at the headend assigns individual STBs to respective communications channels. STBs share both upstream and downstream communications channels and switch ports. In an extended autoregistration procedure, the ATM node switch is configured to assign exclusive ranges of virtual channel numbers to the individual STBs tuned to the single switch port. During ATM cell transfer, an ATM cell originating from or destined to a specific STB uses a virtual channel number within a range of virtual channel numbers assigned to the STB. This allows the headend to determine the source of all upstream data cells an allows STBs to disregard any cells not intended for them.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5539884 (1996-07-01), Robrock
patent: 5548587 (1996-08-01), Bailey et al.
patent: 5548588 (1996-08-01), Ganmukhi et al.

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