Chapter 28: PacketCable™ Services and Voice Applications
STANDARD Revision 1.0 C4® CMTS Release 8.3 User Guide
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Applies provisioned rules before forwarding requests to the C4/c CMTS
(for example, a given service may be granted to no more than ten users at a time)
Synchronizes states
Proxies messages between the AM and the C4/c CMTS(s)
Acts as a COPS Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) with respect to the AM
Acts as a COPS Policy Decision Point (PDP) with respect to the C4/c CMTS
Communicates with one or more AMs and one or more C4/c CMTS
Note: The COPS function is IPv4 only.
See the figure below for a diagram of the network elements.
In the current implementation of PCMM the client is ignorant of the PCMM or QoS protocols. The client has no built-in
network awareness or intelligence to negotiate PCMM or QoS levels. Subscribers can use their current client hardware and
software, for game applications, teleconferencing, VPN, and so on.
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