Bandwidth and topology management device for home networks

摘要

Systems, methods, and equipment for use in the management of network topology and bandwidth for computing networks are provided. In an illustrative implementation of a device acting as a patch panel is provided. The patch panel works on both the physical wire and on the frequencies of the wire to route data to appropriate destination points. For example, both ADSL and telephony could be bridged among copper wires, using several independent busses. Home Phone Network Alliance Association (HPNA) standardized data could either be bridged among wires, or connected to an internal switching device, that would store and forward the native Ethernet packets used by HomePNA in a way similar to that done by Ethernet switches today. Additionally, an Ethernet uplink could attach the HPNA ports to a larger network or to a DSL Modem, and HPNA/ADSL could be removed from wires that might have privacy concerns or otherwise need filters to perform properly.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
determining a source of data signals for communication to a termination point having a predetermined operational signal frequency; separating telephony signals from digital subscriber line signals in a frequency demultiplexer; sending the telephony signals from an output of the frequency demultiplexer to an input of a frequency crossbar that bridges inputs to different transceivers and to different telephony ports; bridging the telephony signals to one of the telephony ports based on frequencies of voice signals in the telephony signals; sending the digital subscriber line signals from another output of the frequency demultiplexer to another input of the frequency crossbar; bridging the digital subscriber line signals to a different one of the telephony ports in the frequency crossbar based on the frequencies of the digital subscriber line signals; and selecting an Ethernet output port and bridging the digital subscriber line signals onto a path through the frequency cross bar that connects to the Ethernet output port.