Abstract: Example embodiments include a method for receiving, at a user device from a home access point, a first digital certificate for a residential wireless roaming mode, wherein the residential wireless roaming mode provides the user device remote access to a wireless local area network corresponding to the home access point, and wherein the first digital certificate is issued by a certificate authority of a service provider associated with the home access point; transmitting at least one probe request message to at least one public access point, wherein the probe request message includes at least the first digital certificate; receiving from the at least one public access point a probe response message including information for remotely accessing the wireless local area network via a virtual private network connection established between the public access point and the home access point.

Abstract: Example embodiments include a method for receiving, at a user device from a home access point, a first digital certificate for a residential wireless roaming mode, wherein the residential wireless roaming mode provides the user device remote access to a wireless local area network corresponding to the home access point, and wherein the first digital certificate is issued by a certificate authority of a service provider associated with the home access point; transmitting at least one probe request message to at least one public access point, wherein the probe request message includes at least the first digital certificate; receiving from the at least one public access point a probe response message including information for remotely accessing the wireless local area network via a virtual private network connection established between the public access point and the home access point.

Abstract: A client device is configured to: receive a list of multicast channels from a multicast controller, the list of multicast channels identifying multicast channels to be multicast to a plurality of clients in the access network; receive an updated list of multicast channels from the multicast controller; identify differences between the list of multicast channels and the updated list of multicast channels; and inform the termination node of differences between the list of multicast channels and the updated list of multicast channels.

Abstract: A method, computer readable medium, and system for advertisement and content distribution are provided. Supplementary content is synchronized with advertisement slots, or commercial intervals, of a program stream and distributed via separate multicast group addresses. The program content is distributed via an alternative multicast group address during commercial intervals. Ports associated with respective users are mapped or otherwise associated with multiple multicast group addresses in a forwarding table thereby allowing distribution of supplementary content, or alternatively the program content, during commercial intervals.

Abstract: Disabling data channels at a customer premises provides, in one embodiment, generating at least one jamming signal and inserting the at least one jamming signal at a first frequency to jam at least one carrier frequency channel. The jamming signal may be hopped to at least one additional frequency different from the first frequency to jam at least one additional carrier frequency channel.

Abstract: A system, method and computer readable medium operable to move a video delay from a network video queue to a decoder video queue by discarding at least one video frame in a network video queue, thus moving video frames deeper in the queue forward in time. As such, rapid channel changing is provided without continuous unicasting, or temporarily transmitting at faster than the nominal rate, thereby alleviating strain on the network.

Abstract: Disabling data channels at a customer premises provides, in one embodiment, generating at least one jamming signal and inserting the at least one jamming signal at a first frequency to jam at least one carrier frequency channel. The jamming signal may be hopped to at least one additional frequency different from the first frequency to jam at least one additional carrier frequency channel.

Abstract: A method, computer readable medium, and system for advertisement and content distribution are provided. Supplementary content is synchronized with advertisement slots, or commercial intervals, of a program stream and distributed via separate multicast group addresses. The program content is distributed via an alternative multicast group address during commercial intervals. Ports associated with respective users are mapped or otherwise associated with multiple multicast group addresses in a forwarding table thereby allowing distribution of supplementary content, or alternatively the program content, during commercial intervals.

Abstract: A method, computer readable medium, and system for advertisement and content distribution are provided. Supplementary content is synchronized with advertisement slots, or commercial intervals, of a program stream and distributed via separate multicast group addresses. The program content is distributed via an alternative multicast group address during commercial intervals. Ports associated with respective users are mapped or otherwise associated with multiple multicast group addresses in a forwarding table thereby allowing distribution of supplementary content, or alternatively the program content, during commercial intervals.

Abstract: A method is provided for enabling rapid media stream channel changes in conjunction with increasing network resource utilization efficiency. A media stream is multicast for reception by a plurality of requesting decoders. The media stream includes packets containing groups of pictures (GOPs), which are stored in a buffer of an access node. At least a portion of the packets are unicast from the access node for reception by a new requesting decoder in response to receiving from the new requesting decoder a request for reception designating a media stream identifier corresponding to the media stream. Thereafter, the media stream is multicast to the new decoder after bringing packet transmission of the unicast media stream into alignment with packet transmission of the multicast media stream.

Abstract: Various aspects of apparatuses and methods for enabling a subscriber premise network interface device (NID) to facilitate communication services including digitally derived voice services to be facilitated between a central office and a subscriber premise are disclosed herein. In accordance with one embodiment of the disclosures herein, such a method includes facilitating a downstream DSL voice channel transmission process at a subscriber premise Network Interface Device (NID) and facilitating an upstream DSL voice channel transmission process at the subscriber premise NID. The downstream DSL voice channel transmission process facilitates converting a voice component of a downstream DSL data stream to a corresponding downstream analog voice signal. The upstream DSL voice channel transmission process facilitates converting an upstream analog voice signal to an upstream voice component of an upstream DSL data stream.

Abstract: A network equipment system comprises a communication apparatus, an equipment protector block connected between the communication apparatus and a subscriber premise DSL network termination device (NTD), and a protection module mounted on the equipment protector block. The protection module includes circuitry configured for providing surge protection functionality, for providing AC coupling-DC blocking functionality, for providing DC blocking bypass functionality, and for enabling said DC blocking bypass functionality to be selectively activated and deactivated. The protection module facilitates such functionality in association with the communication apparatus and the subscriber premise DSL NTD.

Abstract: A method, a computer readable medium and a system for advertisement and content distribution, comprises a splicer, and a set top box (STB), wherein the splicer is communicably coupled to the STB, wherein the splicer receives content, wherein the splicer receives at least one advertisement, wherein the splicer synchronizes the at least one advertisement on a first address with a slot in the content on a second address to produce an output, wherein the splicer sends the output to the STB, and wherein the STB displays the output.

Abstract: One embodiment of the disclosures made herein is a network equipment protection module configured for being removably mounted on a network equipment protector block. In accordance with such a network equipment protection module, the network equipment protection module includes surge protection circuitry configured for providing surge protection functionality, AC coupling-DC blocking circuitry configured for providing AC coupling-DC blocking functionality and DC blocking circuitry configured for providing DC blocking functionality. The DC blocking circuitry enables the DC blocking functionality to be selectively activated and deactivated. In this manner, such a network equipment protection module enables the combination of surge protection, DSL signal transmission, full metallic loop testing (MLT) and bridging of a DC voltage to be facilitated in association with a twisted pair transmission line.

Abstract: A method, computer readable medium, and system for advertisement and content distribution are provided. Supplementary content is synchronized with advertisement slots, or commercial intervals, of a program stream and distributed via separate multicast group addresses. The program content is distributed via an alternative multicast group address during commercial intervals. Ports associated with respective users are mapped or otherwise associated with multiple multicast group addresses in a forwarding table thereby allowing distribution of supplementary content, or alternatively the program content, during commercial intervals.

Abstract: Various aspects of apparatuses and methods for enabling a subscriber premise network interface device (NID) to facilitate communication services including digitally derived voice services to be facilitated between a central office and a subscriber premise are disclosed herein. In accordance with one embodiment of the disclosures herein, such a method includes facilitating a downstream DSL voice channel transmission process at a subscriber premise Network Interface Device (NID) and facilitating an upstream DSL voice channel transmission process at the subscriber premise NID. The downstream DSL voice channel transmission process facilitates converting a voice component of a downstream DSL data stream to a corresponding downstream analog voice signal. The upstream DSL voice channel transmission process facilitates converting an upstream analog voice signal to an upstream voice component of an upstream DSL data stream.

Abstract: One embodiment of the disclosures made herein is a network equipment protection module configured for being removably mounted on a network equipment protector block. In accordance with such a network equipment protection module, the network equipment protection module includes surge protection circuitry configured for providing surge protection functionality, AC coupling-DC blocking circuitry configured for providing AC coupling-DC blocking functionality and DC blocking circuitry configured for providing DC blocking functionality. The DC blocking circuitry enables the DC blocking functionality to be selectively activated and deactivated. In this manner, such a network equipment protection module enables the combination of surge protection, DSL signal transmission, full metallic loop testing (MLT) and bridging of a DC voltage to be facilitated in association with a twisted pair transmission line.

Abstract: Various aspects of apparatuses and methods for enabling a subscriber premise network interface device (NID) to facilitate communication services including digitally derived voice services to be facilitated between a central office and a subscriber premise are disclosed herein. In accordance with one embodiment of the disclosures herein, such a method includes facilitating a downstream DSL voice channel transmission process at a subscriber premise Network Interface Device (NID) and facilitating an upstream DSL voice channel transmission process at the subscriber premise NID. The downstream DSL voice channel transmission process facilitates converting a voice component of a downstream DSL data stream to a corresponding downstream analog voice signal. The upstream DSL voice channel transmission process facilitates converting an upstream analog voice signal to an upstream voice component of an upstream DSL data stream.

Abstract: A broadband fiber optic communication system conveys telecommunication messages over a fiber optic link between a master site and one or more remote sites. The remote sites are coupled over an unshielded twisted pair-configured, communication link to an optical network unit, which is ported to the fiber optic link. In order to convey broadband information signals that have been downlinked, from the master site to the optical network unit, to the remote sites, and to provide for return messages from the remote sites, a point-to-multi-point communication scheme is provided. Pursuant to this scheme, an upstream transceiver in the optical interface unit transmits STS-1 frames, which contain broadband information signals, such as asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) data cells, intended for one or more remote sites, and a return time slot-representative control code associated with each destination remote site, over the communication link to the remote sites.

Abstract: A two-stage cell routing filter mechanism employs a customer premises associated flag bit field in ATM data cells being serially transmitted from a host digital terminal's data transport path through an optical fiber to a downstream optical network unit associated with a plurality of customer premises equipments. The first stage of the cell routing filter is comprised of a look-up table (LUT) and an associated comparator mechanism. The state of each bit of the flag field of an ATM cell preamble will indicate whether or not the ATM cell is intended for the customer premises equipment associated with the bit. A downstream optical network unit contains an associated set of ATM cell filters associated with customer premises equipment. Each customer equipment cell filter examines a given bit position in the flag field portion of each received ATM cell preamble, to see whether the flag field bit of the preamble of the received ATM cell is set to prescribed bit value (e.g.