Cable data transmission equipment, namely, a converged edge router and software for controlling the converged edge router; converged edge routers comprised of switches, processors, volatile memories, non-volatile memories, input and output ports, input and output interface circuitry and software to manage and control the switches, processors, volatile memories, non-volatile memories, input and output ports and input and output interface circuitry for routing and managing communications traffic, and a universal edge quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) edge network device; hybrid fiber/coaxial (HFC) equipment, namely, a forward path optical transmitter, a reverse path optical receiver, an amplifier, a diplexer, a passive optical network optical line terminal (PON OLT) and software to control each of the aforementioned components
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