Patent ID: 10630383

Abstract:
A cable modem (CM), a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network fault locating system, and a fault detection method are provided. The CM can not only detect intrusion noise outside a carrier and white noise, but also detect other fault problems, such as non-linear distortion, pulse noise, intrusion noise on a carrier, and linear distortion. The system includes a direction-selective apparatus. The apparatus can allow only an upstream signal entered from an output port of the apparatus to be transmitted to a CM to which a branch port of the apparatus is connected, without allowing an upstream signal entered from an input port of the apparatus to be transmitted to the CM to which the branch port of the apparatus is connected, so that once detecting a fault from the upstream signal, the CM can accurately determine, through locating, that the fault in an HFC network is located on an output port side of the apparatus.