Patent ID: 6291983
Filing Date: 2001-09-18
Classification: H04B,H04N

Abstract:
A broadband network monitoring system comprising:at least two Radio Frecquency (RF) transient detectors, each RF transient detector sensing an RF line signal on one of at least two broadband lines in the broadband network, each RF transient detector detecting transients on a corresponding broadband line and producing a transient indicator when there is a transient on the RF line signal of the corresponding broadband line;an RF switch with two or more inputs, each of the two or more of the inputs capable of receiving one of the RF line signals, the RF switch capable of directing any one of the RF line signals to one or more RF switch outputs;one or more analyzing devices each connected to one of the RF switch outputs; anda controller connected to each of the RF transient detectors and to the RF switch, the controller causing the RF switch to connect the RF line signal sensed by one of the respective RF transient detectors to one of the analyzing devices when the transient indicator for the one RF transient detector is produced.