DOCSIS protocol-based access method, apparatus, and system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9749049-B2
Application number	US-201414279695-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2014
Priority date	Nov 17, 2011
Publication date	Aug 29, 2017
Grant date	Aug 29, 2017

Abstract

Various embodiments of the present invention disclose a DOCSIS protocol-based access method, apparatus, and system. A first PON physical layer module is disposed inside or outside a CMTS device; the CMTS device receives DOCSIS protocol-based data, converts the DOCSIS protocol-based data into PON physical layer format-based data by using the first PON physical layer module, and sends the PON physical layer format-based data to a CMC through an optical distribution network; and the CMC receives the PON physical layer format-based data, converts the PON physical layer format-based data into DOCSIS physical layer format-based data, and sends the converted data to a terminal device. The solution provided by various embodiments of the present invention is applicable to a DOCSIS system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) protocol-based access system, comprising:
a cable modem termination system (CMTS) device; and
a coax media converter (CMC) wherein:
a first passive optical network (PON) physical layer module is disposed inside or outside the CMTS device,
the CMTS device is configured to receive DOCSIS protocol-based data, convert the DOCSIS protocol-based data into PON physical layer format-based data by using the first PON physical layer module, and send the PON physical layer format-based data to the CMC through an optical distribution network,
the CMC is configured to receive the PON physical layer format-based data, convert the PON physical layer format-based data into DOCSIS physical layer format-based data, and send the converted data to a terminal device,
a second PON physical layer module, a PON adaptation module, a DOCSIS physical layer module, and a radio-frequency module are disposed inside the CMC, the second PON physical layer module is configured to receive the PON physical layer format-based data from the CMTS device, and send the received data to the PON adaptation module, the PON adaptation module is configured to forward the data from the second PON physical layer module to the DOCSIS physical layer module after finishing packet caching, traffic classification, filtering, and rate matching.

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein
the first PON physical layer module comprises a PON adaptation module and a 10G EPON (Ethernet PON) physical layer module,
the PON adaptation module is connected to the DEPI and the UEPI, is connected to the 10G EPON physical layer module by using an SFI-4 (serializer/deserializer framer interface level 4) interface, and is configured to implement conversion of interfaces between the DOCSIS MAC module and the 10G EPON physical layer module, and
the 10G EPON physical layer module is configured to modulate the DOCSIS protocol-based data into the PON physical layer format-based data, and send the PON physical layer format-based data to the CMC through the optical distribution network.

3. The system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the DOCSIS physical layer module finishes processing of a downstream channel physical layer signal, converts it into DOCSIS physical layer format-based data, and send the converted data to the radio-frequency module, and
the radio-frequency module is configured to modulate the DOCSIS physical layer format-based data to a radio-frequency interface and send it to the terminal device.

4. The system according to claim 3 , wherein the PON adaptation module in the CMC is a field programmable gate array or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip.

5. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the CMC is further configured to extract an analog radio-frequency signal, and convert the analog radio-frequency signal into a video radio-frequency signal by using an analog optical receiver.

6. A cable modem termination system (CMTS) device, comprising:
a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) media access control (MAC) module; and
a first passive optical network (PON) physical layer module, wherein
the DOCSIS MAC module is provided with a downstream external physical layer interface (DEPI) and an upstream external physical layer interface (UEPI),
the DEPI and the UEPI are configured to connect to the PON physical layer module,
the DOCSIS MAC module is configured to send DOCSIS protocol-based data to the PON physical layer module by using the DEPI, and receive DOCSIS protocol-based data from the PON physical layer module by using the UEPI,
the PON physical layer module is provided with at least one PON interface,
the PON interface is configured to connect to a passive optical distribution network,
the PON physical layer module is configured to convert PON physical layer format-based data from the passive optical distribution network into DOCSIS protocol-based data, and is configured to modulate the data from the DOCSIS MAC module into PON physical layer format-based data, and send the PON physical layer format-based data to a coax media converter (CMC) through the optical distribution network, and the CMC comprises a PON adaptation module, configured to forward the PON physical layer format-based data received from CMTS to a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) physical layer module after finishing packet caching, traffic classification, filtering, and rate matching.

7. The CMTS device according to claim 6 , wherein the PON physical layer module is a 10G EPON (10 Gbit/s Ethernet passive optical network) physical layer module.

8. A coax media converter (CMC), comprising:
a passive optical network (PON) physical layer module, configured to receive and send PON physical layer format-based data; and
a PON adaptation module, configured to forward the PON physical layer format-based data from the PON physical layer module to a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) physical layer module after finishing packet caching, traffic classification, filtering, and rate matching, wherein
the DOCSIS physical layer module is configured to finish processing of a downstream multichannel physical layer signal, output DOCSIS physical layer format-based data, send the DOCSIS physical layer format-based data to a radio-frequency module, receive DOCSIS physical layer format-based data of the radio-frequency module, finish processing of an upstream multichannel physical layer signal, and send the processed signal to the PON adaptation module, and
the radio-frequency module is configured to modulate the DOCSIS physical layer format-based data to a radio-frequency interface and send it to a terminal device.

9. The CMC according to claim 8 , further comprising:
a video relay module configured to separate out an analog radio-frequency signal, and convert the analog radio-frequency signal into a video radio-frequency signal by using an analog optical receiver.

10. The CMC according to claim 8 , wherein the PON adaptation module is a field programmable gate array or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip.

11. A Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) protocol-based access method, comprising:
receiving DOCSIS protocol-based data on a media access control (MAC) layer;
converting the DOCSIS protocol-based data into passive optical network (PON) physical layer format-based data by using a PON physical layer module disposed inside or outside;
sending the PON physical layer format-based data to a PON optical module;
sending, by the PON optical module, the PON physical layer format-based data to a coax media converter (CMC) by using a fiber; forwarding the PON physical layer format-based data from the CMC after finishing packet caching, traffic classification, filtering, and rate matching; converting the forwarded PON physical layer format-based data into DOCSIS physical layer format-based data; and sending the converted DOCSIS physical layer format-based data.

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the PON physical layer module is a 10G EPON (10 Gbit/s Ethernet passive optical network) physical layer module.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wu Guangsheng

Classifications

• H04Q11/0071

  Provisions for the electrical-optical layer interface · CPC title

• H04L12/413

  with random access, e.g. carrier-sense multiple-access with collision detection [CSMA-CD] · CPC title

• H04B10/27

  Arrangements for networking · CPC title

• H04B10/25751 Primary

  Optical arrangements for CATV or video distribution (adaptations of television systems for optical transmission H04N7/22) · CPC title

• H04Q11/0067 Primary

  Provisions for optical access or distribution networks, e.g. Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GE-PON), ATM-based Passive Optical Network (A-PON), PON-Ring · CPC title