Patent ID: 8737232

Claim:
A method for providing automatic fail-over service for premises equipment that is accessing a network via a first network access medium, the fail-over service providing fail-over from the first network access medium to a second network access medium, the method comprising: at a bandwidth manager, transmitting a first network ping through the network and through the first network access medium to the premises equipment; at the bandwidth manager, receiving from the premises equipment a response to the first network ping; determining a status of the first network access medium based on the response to the first network ping; at a bandwidth manager, transmitting a second network ping through the network and through the second network access medium to the premises equipment; at a bandwidth manager, receiving from the premises equipment a response to the second network ping; determining a status of the second network access medium based on the response to the second network ping; and based on the status of the first and second network access media, transmitting a message to the premises equipment to change from accessing the network via the first network access medium to accessing the network via the second network access medium.