Integrated access device and associated modem box and splitting module
View Patent ↗The present invention concerns a modem box, a splitting module, and an integrated access device. The modem box comprises upside communication means for coupling with central equipments through central signals, the latter being modulated for at least one of the central equipments, downside communication means coupling the modem box with terminal equipments through terminal signals, transfer means between the upside and downside communication means, and modem means for doing transformation between the modulated central signals and demodulated signals among the terminal signals. The modem box comprises an outer contact surface receiving a splitting module, which does transformation between the central signals and grouped signals formed with a multiplexing of the latter, and the upside communication means comprise at least one connection element arranged with that contact surface, in contact with at least one respective connection element of the splitting module.
1. Splitting module comprising:
upside communication means for coupling said splitting module with at least two central equipments, through grouped signals formed with a multiplexing of central signals in relation with respectively said central equipments, the central signals communicated between said splitting module and at least one of said central equipments being modulated, said upside communication means comprising an upside communication point coupled with said central equipments,
downside communication means for coupling said splitting module with at least two terminal equipments, through said central signals, said downside communication means comprising at least two downside communication points respectively intended for said central equipments, said downside communication points associated with said modulated central signals being intended to be coupled to at least one of said terminal equipments via a modem box,
and splitting means for doing transformation between said grouped signals at said upside communication point and said central signals at said downside communication points,
wherein said splitting module comprises an outer contact surface intended to be placed against an outer contact surface of said modem box forming a cavity, and said downside communication means comprise at least one connection element arranged with said outer contact surface of said splitting module and including said downside communication points, said connection element being provided for being in contact with at least one respective connection element of said modem box, said splitting module being intended to be received inside said cavity of said modem box, so that the joined modem box and splitting module form a compact entity delimited by the borders of the modem box.
2. Splitting module according to claim 1 , wherein said splitting module comprises filtering means.