Provisioning in Support of an Embedded Cable Modem MAC Address

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016359693-A1
Application number	US-201615174087-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 6, 2016
Priority date	Jun 5, 2015
Publication date	Dec 8, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the provisioning of a device using an embedded cable modem media access control (MAC) address. An optical network unit (ONU) may include an embedded cable modem, wherein the embedded cable modem has a dedicated MAC address. Provisioning servers may provide identical configuration files to a virtual cable modem at an optical line termination (OLT) and the embedded cable modem at the ONU. The embedded cable modem MAC address, along with an associated Internet protocol (IP) stack, enables traditional DOCSIS cable modem provisioning and management over a passive optical network.

First claim

We claim:

1 . A method comprising:
establishing a connection between an optical network unit and a virtual cable modem, wherein the optical network unit comprises an embedded cable modem, the embedded cable modem having a dedicated media access control address; outputting a configuration request, wherein the configuration request includes an identification of the media access control address dedicated to the embedded cable modem; receiving a first configuration file at the embedded cable modem, wherein the first configuration file is identical to a second configuration file, the second configuration file being delivered to and received by the virtual cable modem; and provisioning the optical network unit according to one or more configuration parameters received by the embedded cable modem within the configuration file.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first configuration file and the second configuration file are received from a data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) provisioning server.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first configuration file is received at the optical network unit over a passive optical network.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first configuration file does not include parameters associated with DOCSIS physical layer operations.

5 . An optical network unit comprising:
an embedded cable modem having a dedicated media access control address; one or more modules configured to establish a connection between the embedded cable modem and a virtual cable modem; one or more interfaces configured to be used to:
output a configuration request, wherein the configuration request includes an identification of the media access control address dedicated to the embedded cable modem; and
receive a first configuration file, wherein the first configuration file is identical to a second configuration file, the second configuration file being delivered to and received by the virtual cable modem; and
wherein the one or more modules are further configured to provision the optical network unit according to one or more configuration parameters received by the embedded cable modem within the configuration file.

6 . The optical network unit of claim 5 , wherein the first configuration file and the second configuration file are received from a data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) provisioning server.

7 . The optical network unit of claim 5 , wherein the first configuration file is received at the optical network unit over a passive optical network.

8 . The optical network unit of claim 5 , wherein the first configuration file does not include parameters associated with DOCSIS physical layer operations.

9 . One or more non-transitory computer readable media having instructions operable to cause one or more processors to perform the operations comprising:
establishing a connection between an optical network unit and a virtual cable modem, wherein the optical network unit comprises an embedded cable modem, the embedded cable modem having a dedicated media access control address; outputting a configuration request, wherein the configuration request includes an identification of the media access control address dedicated to the embedded cable modem; receiving a first configuration file at the embedded cable modem, wherein the first configuration file is identical to a second configuration file, the second configuration file being delivered to and received by the virtual cable modem; and provisioning the optical network unit according to one or more configuration parameters received by the embedded cable modem within the configuration file.

10 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 9 , wherein the first configuration file and the second configuration file are received from a data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) provisioning server.

11 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 9 , wherein the first configuration file is received at the optical network unit over a passive optical network.

12 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 9 , wherein the first configuration file does not include parameters associated with DOCSIS physical layer operations.

Assignees

• Arris Entpr Llc

Inventors

• Carter Wade E
• Beans Janet Taylor
• Torbet Daniel
• Emmendorfer Michael J

Classifications

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L41/5054 Primary

  Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components · CPC title

• H04L67/02

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• H04L12/4633

  Interconnection of networks using encapsulation techniques, e.g. tunneling · CPC title

• H04L12/2801

  Broadband local area networks · CPC title