Systems and Methods for reducing distortion due to bursts of upstream transmission in an HFC CATV network. In some preferred systems, the functionality of an Optical Network Unit (ONU) may occur within a node or amplifier along a direction upstream from a subscriber's home.

Disclosed is an electronic device (1) for converting a wireless signal (2) in the mm-wave or sub-THz range into at least one modulated optical signal (16). The electronic device (1) comprises an antenna element (11) for converting the wireless signal (2) into a guided electrical signal (12), wherein the antenna element (11) is arranged on a printed circuit board (10b′) or on a first integrated chip (10′)′ The electronic device (1) comprises an electrical signal converter (13) for converting the at least one guided electrical signal (12) into a conditioned electrical signal (14), wherein the electrical signal converter (13) is arranged on a second integrated chip (10″). The electronic device (1) comprises a modulator (15) for converting the conditioned electrical signal (14) into the modulated optical signal (16), wherein the modulator (15) is arranged on a third integrated chip (10′″), and wherein the modulator (15) comprises a waveguide (151) and a cladding (152) comprising a first cladding portion (1521) having a conductive material at an interface with the waveguide (151) and a second cladding portion (1522) having a conductive material at an interface with the waveguide (151).

A fiber-to-coax optical network unit for converting one or more Gigabit or Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GPON or EPON) fibers to one or more coaxial cable lines to connect a subscriber's premises to a Community Access Television (CATV) system.

A method of converting legacy HFC CATV cable systems, which transmit data over the optical fiber portion of the system using the optical counterpart of analog RF waveforms, such as RF QAM waveforms transduced to corresponding optical QAM waveforms, to improved HFC CATV systems that transmit data over the optical fiber using optical fiber optimized protocols, such as Ethernet frames and other optical fiber optimized digital transport protocols. According to the method, most aspects of the legacy HFC CATV system may be retained, however at the CATV head end, the optical fiber transmitter system is replaced by an improved system that extracts the underlying symbols from legacy waveforms, packages these symbols into optical fiber optimized packets, and transmits downstream. The legacy optical fiber nodes are replaced with improved nodes capable of receiving the packets and remodulating the symbols into RF waveforms suitable for injection into the system's CATV cable.

A transmitting and/or receiving system for cable networks.

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.

Embodiments disclosed in the detailed description include analog distributed antenna system (DAS) supporting distribution of digital communications signals interfaced from a digital signal source and analog radio frequency (RF) communications signals. Analog RF communications signals received from analog RF signal sources are distributed in the analog DAS without being digitized. The analog DAS is also configured to interface with digital signal sources and compatibly distribute digital communications signals. Hence, a digital signal interface in head-end equipment (HEE) is configured to convert downlink digital communications signals to downlink analog RF communications signals for distribution to a plurality of remote units. The digital signal interface is also configured to convert uplink analog RF communications signals to uplink digital communications signals for distribution to the digital signal source(s). By providing the digital signal interface in the HEE, the analog DAS can be configured to distribute digital communications signals to analog DAS components.

Systems and methods for achieving full duplex bidirectional transmission across coaxial cable in a hybrid fiber-coaxial cable TV network. Some preferred systems and method will attenuate reflections propagated within the coaxial cable. Other preferred systems may echo-cancel reflections propagated within the coaxial cable.

A transmitter includes: a substrate; a signal source disposed on the substrate; an electrical-to-optical (E/O) converter disposed on the substrate and that converts an electrical signal outputted from the signal source into an optical signal; an optical cable that carries the optical signal; and an optical connector disposed at an end of the optical cable. The electrical signal is inputted into the E/O converter.

A mini-optical line termination (OLT) includes at least one management card for providing control and management functions. A plurality of network cards having a predetermined number of ports are configured to support a predetermined number of subscribers by providing a gigabit passive optical network to the subscribers. At least one network device is coupled to an upstream device and the plurality of network cards. The at least one network device is configured to control the forwarding of data between the upstream device and the subscribers.