The present invention provides a transmitter including a first source network interface connected to a first transmission path of a plurality of transmission paths, an nth source network interface connected to an nth transmission path of the plurality of transmission paths, a video signal segmenting unit configured to segment a video signal into a plurality of pieces of data, a sequence number allocating unit configured to allocate a sequence number to each of the plurality of pieces of data, an IP packet generating unit configured to generate a plurality of IP packets by adding IP headers to the plurality of pieces of data, and a transmitting unit configured to allocate each of the plurality of IP packets to one of the first source network interface to the nth source network interface, respectively, and to transmit the IP packets independently.

A service processing method and apparatus and an optical line terminal are provided in the present document. The method includes: establishing a corresponding relationship between a device identifier used for identifying an optical network unit ONU and a service provider SP; determining an SP providing a service according to the device identifier reported by the ONU and the corresponding relationship; and processing the service provided by the SP according to the determined SP. The present document solves the problem of resource wastes and complicated management and maintenance existing as each service provider respectively performs service operation and corresponding service management and maintenance according to respective dedicated network in the related art , thereby achieving that services of different service providers are maintained and managed in the same passive optical network, which has an effect that the network construction costs can be effectively saved, and the maintenance is convenient and efficient.

A method for transmitting data in a communication network including a shared communication medium includes (a) transmitting local data between a first client node and a second client node according to a first data protocol, using a first shared communication medium, and (b) transmitting remote data between the first client node and a network hub according to a second data protocol different from the first data protocol, using at least the first shared communication medium.

A system for providing enhanced and/or supplementary network connectivity to at least one client device being connected to a telecommunications network using a customer premises equipment device includes: the customer premises equipment device; a supplementary access gateway device; and the at least one client device. The supplementary access gateway device is configured to provide enhanced and/or supplementary network connectivity to the at least one client device using the second access network and the first interface of the supplementary access gateway device, the enhanced and/or supplementary network connectivity being provided to the at least one client device instead of or in addition to the network connectivity provided using the first access network and the customer premises equipment device.

This disclosure describes methods, apparatus, and systems to increase the transmission data rate in wireless networks, for example, by using one or more Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and/or channel bonding techniques. In one embodiment, the disclosure describes the use of Golay Sequence Sets (GSS) to define guard intervals (GIs) for single carrier (SC) single channel bonding and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmission. In various embodiments, the disclosure describes the design of guard interval sequence for 3 types of guard intervals having lengths that can be classified as short, medium, and long. In another embodiment, the disclosure defines the guard interval for single channel transmission channel bonding and for MIMO transmission.

A communication is executed between a user equipment and a communication network based on carrier aggregation using a first group of at least two PUCCH groups, the first group including a primary serving cell that carries a first PUCCH, and first serving cells which use the first PUCCH, and a second group of the at least two PUCCH groups, the second group including a secondary serving cell that carries a second PUCCH, and second serving cells which use the second PUCCH. In case a predetermined condition occurs, the communication is continued by exchanging the first group by the second group wherein the secondary serving cell that carries the second PUCCH becomes the primary serving cell and vice versa.

Systems and methods are provided for reducing WAN bandwidth consumption used by multicast for large scale software-defined branch deployments. In particular, a cloud-based multicast orchestrator may be implemented as part of an SD-WAN service. This cloud-based multicast orchestrator may orchestrate routes for multicast traffic between a multicast source and the various branches of the large scale software-defined branch deployment. This cloud-based multicast orchestrator may orchestrate routes for multicast traffic which reduce/optimize WAN bandwidth consumption. In combination with the cloud-based multicast orchestrator, examples may utilize a branch gateway hierarchy which designates one branch gateway a leader for a given multicast stream to further reduce WAN bandwidth consumption used by multicast.

The disclosure relates generally to supporting bonded services at non-anchor nodes. A non-anchor gateway device is configured to support service bonding for a user device and communication with an anchor node of the user device. The non-anchor gateway device is configured to associated a set of user device data plane connections of the user device to form a bonded session for the user device where the set of user device data plane sessions includes a first user device data plane connection associated with a first access network and a second user device data plane connection associated with a second access network. The non-anchor gateway device is configured to map user device traffic of the user device between the user device data plane connections of the bonded session and a user device data plane session between the gateway device and the anchor node for the user device.

A method is described and in one embodiment includes providing a physical connection between a node and a user equipment at a subscriber premises via a cable connection, wherein the node comprises a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) remote PHY device (RPD) collocated with a cellular small cell device; receiving at the node a cellular downlink (DL) data signal from a cellular network connected to the cellular small cell device; combining the received cellular DL data signal with a DOCSIS downstream (DS) signal from a cellular network connected to the DOCSIS RPD to create a combined DS data signal; and forwarding the combined DS data signal from the node to the user equipment via the cable connection.

A method for transmitting data in a communication network including a shared communication medium includes (a) transmitting local data between a first client node and a second client node according to a first data protocol, using a first shared communication medium, and (b) transmitting remote data between the first client node and a network hub according to a second data protocol different from the first data protocol, using at least the first shared communication medium.