US Patent Issued to Applied Optoelectronics on Dec. 30 for "Broadband digital access (BDA) architecture for extending digital broadband communications in an HFC network" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,359, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (Needham, Mass.).

"Broadband digital access (BDA) architecture for extending digital broadband communications in an HFC network" was invented by George Goncalves (Cumming, Ga.), Rafael Celedon (Atlanta) and Mark Siejka (Winder, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A broadband digital access (BDA) architecture includes a BDA hub device in a headend/hub and one or more BDA node modules in one or more HFC nodes to enable digital communications between the headend/hub and the HFC node(s) in a CATV/HFC network. The BDA hub device and the BDA node module(s) are connected by...