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Elastic capacity management with a cloud cable modem termination system (cCMTS)

US10587474B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Cisco Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

Yuling Chen · San Francisco, US
Tung-Fai Chan · Palo Alto, US
Alon Bernstein · San Jose, US

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 28, 2017
Grant date	Mar 10, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 28, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L69/323
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Elastic capacity management of remote physical layer (R-PHY) nodes with a cloud Cable Modem Termination System (cCMTS) may be provided. First, a cCMTS instance may be spawned by an orchestrator. Next, the cCMTS instance may be synchronized with states of a physical Cable Modem Termination System (pCMTS). Underlay routing may then be configured between a plurality of remote physical layer (R-PHY) nodes and the cCMTS instance. Then a plurality of R-PHY node connections respectively corresponding to the plurality of R-PHY nodes may be switched from the pCMTS to the cCMTS instance.

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