Abstract: Broadband multimedia system comprising a communication bus, a broad band multimedia router, connected to the communication bus, to a data router and further between a plurality of media sources and a plurality of network transmitters, a session manager, connected to communication bus, the session manager providing routing instructions to the router, for directing media received from the media sources to the network transmitters for transmitting over a broadband network and for directing data received from the router to at least a selected one of the network transmitter for transmitting over the broadband network to a specific destination.

Abstract: A method for automatically connecting a DHCP endpoint to a VLAN in an ATM network having a switch operative to provide LAN emulation for a plurality of non-ATM endpoints, the method including the steps of maintaining a LEC for the VLAN in the absence of any request by any of the endpoints to communicate via the VLAN, the LEC having been previously established for the VLAN, connecting the DHCP endpoint to a port on the switch, determining a predefined association between the VLAN and either the address of the port or the network address of the DHCP endpoint, and mapping either the network address of the DHCP endpoint or the address of the port to the LEC for communication via the VLAN.

Abstract: A method for optimizing the detection of a change in MIB information, the method including the steps of creating a MIB information request, sending the request to a SNMP agent, receiving a first response to the request from the SNMP agent, wherein the first response includes MIB information encoded as a byte array, and comparing the first response byte array to a comparison byte array to determine a difference therebetween.