STANDARD Revision 1.0
C4® CMTS Release 8.3 User Guide
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Chapter 22
Channel Bonding
Channel Assignment ......................................................................... 685
Downstream Channel Bonding (DSCB) ............................................ 690
Upstream Channel Bonding (USCB) ................................................. 700
Selective Enabling of USCB within a MAC Domain .......................... 703
Non-Primary Channel Acquisition for Upstream Channel
Bonding ............................................................................................ 705
Partial Service Handling ................................................................... 706
Observability .................................................................................... 712
Channel Assignment
DOCSIS 3.0 includes the concept of multi-channel operation for both a single cable modem (CM) and for a single service
flow of that cable modem. This concept opens a set of possibilities for the assignment of channels from the CM’s MAC
Domain Cable Modem Service Group (MD-CM-SG) to the CM in the form of a Receive Channel Configuration (RCC)
assignment. It also enables the assignment of flows to either single channels or bonding groups within the CM’s Receive
Channel Set (RCS) as the RCC is successfully applied to the CM.