An apparatus, system, and method are provided herein to provide simultaneous delivery of output communications to a client device and a secondary client device are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include an apparatus including processing circuitry configured to: receive one or more electronic communications; configure the one or more electronic communications for presentation to the client device and the secondary client device based on the delivery identifier; and provide the one or more electronic communications to the client device via a wide area network to facilitate simultaneous delivery of the one or more output communications corresponding to the one or more electronic communications on the client device and the secondary client device. The one or more output communications may be provided to the secondary client device via the client device and a personal area network that is separate from the wide area network.

Method and device for detecting quality of service (QoS) of border gateway protocol (BGP) anycast cluster. In the method, the detection device receives detection-task information for detecting the QoS of the BGP anycast cluster, the detection-task information including a BGP anycast IP address; the detection device sends a detection-request information to the BGP anycast IP address, the detection-request information received by an entity server in the BGP anycast cluster that has a shortest AS path from the detection device; the detection device receives a detection-response information sent by the entity server in the BGP anycast cluster, the detection-response information including an IP address of the entity server; and the detection device generates detection index data according to the detection-request information and the detection-response information, the detection index data including the BGP anycast IP address and the IP address of the entity server.

Disclosed are methods for detecting misconfigured VLANs. In some embodiments, traffic on a VLAN across multiple access points is categorized. Traffic on the VLAN at a single access point is then also categorized. The categorization of the VLAN traffic at the single access point can be in response to, for example, communication errors or other conditions. The two categorizations are then compared to determine if the VLAN traffic at the AP is consistent with the VLAN traffic across a network (e.g., an enterprise network). If the VLAN traffic at the AP is generally consistent with that across the network, this may indicate that a downstream network component, such as a switch or router, is misconfigured. Thus, some embodiments programmatically reconfigure the downstream component to forward traffic for the VLAN.

Systems and methods for steering data packets among a plurality of available network devices. A device connected to a wide area network through multiple network interfaces may dynamically select which network interface to use to transmit individual packets sent to, and received from, client devices over a local area network.

The present disclosure provides a network architecture in which the modem in a hybrid metallic-optical fiber access network is moved from the customer premises to the distribution point. Multiple copper pairs can be used to transmit phantom modes over the copper pairs to the distribution point. Alternatively, or in addition, multiple data signals can be transmitted to a single customer premises with the modem collating the multiple data signals at the distribution point.

A cable distribution system that includes a headend connected to a plurality of customer devices through a transmission network that includes a remote fiber node that converts digital data to analog data suitable for the plurality of customer devices. The remote fiber node receiving a downstream external protocol interface packet that includes a header portion and a data portion in memory. The remote fiber node encoding and transmitting the data portion to at least one of the plurality of customer devices, wherein the data portion is transferred from the memory using direct memory access based upon a buffer descriptor for the encoding.

A method of, a customer-premises equipment for, and a hybrid access gateway server for, enabling a hybrid access gateway server to identity an access type of traffic originating from a customer-premises equipment, CPE, wherein said hybrid access gateway server is arranged to control access to a service network, and wherein said CPE comprises at least two Wide Area Network, WAN, interfaces.

The present disclosure provides a network architecture in which the modem in a hybrid metallic-optical fiber access network is moved from the customer premises to the distribution point. Multiple copper pairs can be used to transmit phantom modes over the copper pairs to the distribution point. Alternatively, or in addition, multiple data signals can be transmitted to a single customer premises with the modem collating the multiple data signals at the distribution point.

An equipment management system includes a control terminal and a management apparatus. The control terminal transmits equipment information related to equipment. The management apparatus includes a CPU and an interface. The management apparatus controls the control terminal through a network. The CPU executes calculation of information processing that is based on information received from the control terminal, determines a load level corresponding to a load of the information processing by the calculation unit, and executes reduction control to reduce the load on the calculation unit in accordance with the load level. The interface being transmits the load level to the control terminal. The control terminal changes, in accordance with the load level, a communication condition of equipment information to be transmitted to the management apparatus.

A series terminal for an automation system, having an insulating housing, which has an electrical contact on at least one side of the housing with which the series terminal can be connected with a data bus of an automation system. The series terminal comprises an integrated electronic processing unit which is connected to the at least one contact device and is designed for transmitting and/or receiving data via the data bus. In this case, the integrated electronic processing unit is set up to query a configuration of the automation system and, based on the configuration, to generate an individual cryptographic key for the automation system in conjunction with a secret cryptographic key stored in the series terminal.