The present invention concerns an Interconnect device, comprising a first interface to a first network, a second interface to a second network, a bridge for connecting said first interface to said second interface, a router comprising routing means, and a local server. The interconnect device comprises means for detecting a device located on the first network which is able to communicate with a device located on said second network, and means for classifying the device as being a device of a first type or a device of a second type, The interconnect device comprises means for using the routing means for the first type device, and not using the routing means for the second type device.

A home system for managing an internet network (9) access connection in which at least one computer (80) can access the internet by way of a main home connection (8). The system contains software means (83) capable of detecting a failure to connect to the internet network (9) on the main home connection (8) and of controlling an automatic failover to a back-up connection comprising a control box (5) of a system for the real-time measurement and modulation of the power consumption of a plurality of electrical appliances (2). The control box (5) is capable of accessing the internet network (9) by way of a wireless connection (6) of packet telephony type.

Systems and methods are disclosed comprising receiving an upstream service signal from a premises. In an aspect, the systems and methods are configured for providing a wireless signal based on the received service signal external to the premises.

The invention provides a method for coupling a smart home device to a mobile terminal, comprising the following features: the smart home device (10, 20, 30) is connected to a server (40) via a source NAT router (14, 24, 34); the mobile terminal (12, 22, 32) is connected to the server (40) via the same source NAT router (14, 24, 34); the server (40) compares a public network address of the smart home device (10, 20, 30) with a public network address of the mobile terminal (12, 22, 32); and where the public network addresses match, the server (40) forwards an identification feature of the smart home device (10, 20, 30) to the mobile terminal (12, 22, 32).

The invention also provides a corresponding server, a corresponding computer program and a corresponding storage medium.

A system, method and device provide passive operation mode and noise management. The system, in one embodiment, includes power loss bypass and upstream noise management.

A method, apparatus and computer program, in which: traffic is routed between a wide area network connection and a plurality of local network devices; the wide area network connection is formed in any of a plurality of connection types; each local network device of the plurality of the local network devices is identified; for each of the identified local network devices a suitable connection type is determined out of the plurality of connection types; and for each of the identified network devices the suitable connection type is arranged so that different ones of the identified network devices are able to communicate over the wide area network connection with different connection types.

Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the encryption of a device identifier using an identification property of a SoC. A unique identifier of a cable modem may be encrypted using a unique key or other unique property of a SoC associated with the cable modem. When an authentication process is initiated at the cable modem, the encrypted unique identifier of the cable modem may be decrypted using the unique key or other unique property of the SoC, thereby producing the unique identifier of the cable modem. The decrypted unique identifier of the cable modem may be output from the cable modem to an upstream controller during the authentication process. In embodiments, an obfuscation key may be used to encrypt and decrypt the unique identifier of the cable modem, and the obfuscation key may be generated using a unique identifier of the SoC.

Architectures, methods and apparatus for providing data services (including enhanced ultra-high data rate services and IoT data services) which leverage existing managed network (e.g., cable network) infrastructure, while also providing support and in some cases utilizing the 3GPP requisite NSA functionality. Also disclosed are the ability to control nodes within the network via embedded control channels, some of which “repurpose” requisite 3GPP NSA infrastructure such as LTE anchor channels. In one variant, the premises devices include RF-enabled receivers (enhanced consumer premises equipment, or CPEe) configured to receive (and transmit) OFDM waveforms via a coaxial cable drop to the premises. In another aspect of the disclosure, methods and apparatus for use of one or more required NSA LTE channels for transmission of IoT user data (and control/management data) to one or more premises devices are provided.

An access request processing method includes Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) in an enterprise branch network receiving an access request in the enterprise branch network, determining whether the access request is for accessing an extranet and requires accelerated processing, forwarding the access request to an acceleration network in response to determining that the access request is for accessing the extranet and requires accelerated processing, receiving response data of the access request from the acceleration network, and sending the response data to a sender of the access request.

Embodiments of this application disclose a configuration method that may be applied to a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN). The method includes: receiving a correspondence between a device identifier of a first device and a first location; sending, to the first device, a verification request related to verifying whether the first device is located at the first location; receiving a verification response to the verification request; and determining, based on the verification response, whether to send configuration information corresponding to the first location to the first device. The methods in the embodiments of this application may be implemented by a software-defined network (SDN) controller.