Shared hybrid fiber-coax network having reduced ingress noise
CA 2197262 C · Owner: At&T Corp. · Inventors: Dail, James E.
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A hybrid fiber-coax network (100) includes at least one repeater (220 1) dispersed within a coax trunk (22 1) that carries video information downstream to a subscriber (14) and subscriber-originated information upstream to a fiber node (18). The repeater serves to digitally regenerate the subscriber-originated information to reduce ingress noise that would otherwise aggregate at the fiber node.
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- Filed February 11, 1997 and granted April 3, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 11, 2017.
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