Patent ID: 9729905
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A system, comprising: a bonding dispersion subsystem, implemented at least in part in hardware, configured to: form a first bonded group of downstream channels and a second bonded group of downstream channels, and disperse a first set of streams over the first bonded group of downstream channels and a second set of streams over the second bonded group of downstream channels; and a plurality of downstream physical layer modulators (DS PHYs) configured to modulate symbols of the first set of streams for transmission over the first bonded group of downstream channels and modulate symbols of the second set of streams for transmission over the second bonded group of downstream channels, wherein a first shared downstream channel is shared between the first bonded group of downstream channels and the second bonded group of downstream channels, wherein the bonding dispersion subsystem is further configured to disperse both the first set of streams over the first bonded group of downstream channels and the second set of streams over the second bonded group of downstream channels such that a majority of any unused capacity of the first and second bonded groups is within the first shared downstream channel.