SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT ADDITION OF NETWORK RESOURCES

摘要

A system and method for efficiently adding a new network resource to a digit al video network, without the need to purchase costly ancillary network hardwar e or extensive manual configuration, is disclosed. The inventive system and metho d provide for a loop-through for adding new resources to a digital video network. The present invention provides for the resources to be daisy chained from the network switch, where each resource is configured simply as either a loop-through ("LT") resource or the "last" resource in the daisy chain. Then, only upstream traffic with Media Access Control ("MAC") addresses of upstream LT resources are transmitted out of the loop- through by the last network resource.