System and method for energy consumption management in broadband telecommunications networks via adaptive power management

US10139845B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SOCIETY OF CABLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERS, INC. · US

Inventors

• Mark Dzuban · Forked River, US
• Daniel H. Howard · Atlanta, US
• Christopher Bastian · Glenmoore, US
• Derek Ralph DiGiacomo · Boyertown, US
• Dean Stoneback · Harleysville, US
• Thomas Martin Davidson · Highlands Ranch, US
• Niem Dang · Sterling, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 29, 2016
• Grant date: Nov 27, 2018
• Expiry date: Dec 15, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y04S40/12
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system and method for the software and hardware-based management and control of overall energy consumption in a telecommunications network is described. The energy consumption management in broadband telecommunications networks is accomplished via an adaptive power system interface and network energy controller that has access to the energy management systems, subsystems, features, individual components and configurations of equipment and services within the network, and provides energy consumption control of an entire network or a portion thereof using a plethora of different types of equipment, equipment or software features, equipment cards, ports, devices, systems, and entire facilities within a network.