Patent ID: 7697408
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication system, comprising: a central office transceiver; an intermediate terminal transceiver; a feeder distribution interface coupled to the central office transceiver and the intermediate terminal transceiver; a first customer transceiver residing at a first customer premises and coupled through the feeder distribution interface to the central office transceiver; a second customer transceiver residing at a second customer premises and coupled through the feeder distribution interface to the intermediate terminal transceiver; memory for storing data based on an estimated distance between the central office transceiver and the feeder distribution interface and an estimated distance between the intermediate terminal transceiver and the feeder distribution interface; and logic configured to estimate a distance of a data path between the intermediate terminal transceiver and the second customer transceiver based on a signal transmitted via the data path, the logic further configured to control, based on the data and the estimated distance of the data path, a power output of the intermediate terminal transceiver for a signal transmitted by the intermediate terminal transceiver through the feeder distribution interface to the second customer transceiver thereby ensuring that the signal transmitted by the intermediate terminal transceiver is spectrally compatible with at least one signal transmitted by the central office transceiver through the feeder distribution interface to the first customer transceiver.