Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel Network Systems, Inc.

Alcatel Na, Inc.,

Hal. A. Thorne

Hal A Thorne

Richard Marion Czerwiec

Joseph E Sutherland

William B Weeber

Duane Richard Remein

William E Powell

Timothy J Williams

Joseph Lee Smith

Michael J Gingell

Ertugrul Baydar

Claude M Hurlocker

Raymond E Tyrrell

Dale L Krisher

David Eckard

William J Fox

Richard W Peters

William H Stephenson, Jr

Gus C Sanders, Jr

Stephen C Dunning

Richard J Sanders, Jr

Francis G Noser

Keith L Bernhardt

Jak Yaemsiri

Jeffrey P Jones

Jonathan Stuart Huffman

Travis S Lentz

Victor W Wilkerson

Patrick M Farrell

Mohammad S Arani

Dana Merrill

Wenkwei Rou

Camille A Abu-Saba

Michael Sutton

Ray Tyrrell

Dirk Corsus

O Lamar Bishop

M Rodney Briscoe

Kenneth J Stoia

V Paul Runyon

Heinrich T Sonnenberg

A transmission system for a passive optical network comprises a shared optical transmission apparatus, a shared electrical interface apparatus and a plurality of transmission convergence termination units. The shared optical transmission apparatus is configured for being coupled to an optical line termination unit via an optical fiber. The shared electrical interface apparatus is coupled to the shared optical transmission apparatus. The plurality of transmission convergence termination units is coupled to the shared electrical interface apparatus. Each one of the transmission convergence termination units is configured for selectively controlling the shared electrical interface apparatus.

Optical network termination apparatus with shared components and passive optical network system comprising same

A synchronous optical transmission system for interfacing SONET formatted channels to lower speed channels in either a SONET format or otherwise. The transmission system incorporates a fiber transmission system, terminal multiplexers and add/drop multiplexers that in turn incorporate a plurality of features, such as parallel scrambling circuitry, frame synchronization circuitry and the like.

Synchronous optical transmission system

A control method and apparatus for an electronic system having a plurality of functional elements, both intelligent and non-intelligent, interconnected by a plurality of time-division multiplexed serial data links, wherein information is normally conveyed in time slots on the data links. Control information is exchanged between the elements by using one or more of said time slots as control channels for all control information. The format of the control information is compatible with both the intelligent elements and non-intelligent elements. The control information format includes a plurality of bits for providing command data, a plurality of address bits, a valid bit to indicate that the information being transmitted is a valid message, an interrupt bit to signal a microprocessor in an intelligent device to interrupt and service the message, and a parity bit for error checking.

Embedded control technique for distributed control systems

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Hal A Thorne