Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Takuya Abe

Satoshi Narikawa

Tomohiko Ikeda

The present invention has an object to provide an uplink band allocation apparatus and an uplink band allocation method that are capable of setting an uplink band of a PON in accordance with an application. The uplink band allocation apparatus and method according to the present invention collect not only the amount of the data accumulated in an ONU but also the information of the application (application information) used on a terminal apparatus. Then, the uplink band allocation apparatus and method according to the present invention reflect, on a DBA conducted by the OLT, information of a band and a delay (band delay information) that have been calculated by an application information acquisition server from the application information and that are demanded by the application.

Upbandwidth allocation device and uplink bandwidth allocation method

An object of the present disclosure is to enable each ONU to generate a plurality of logical paths corresponding to the number of terminal devices connected to the ONU without setting a plurality of MAC addresses in each ONU. An optical network unit according to the present disclosure includes an ID acquisition unitthat acquires ID information unique to a terminal devicefrom the terminal device; a virtual MAC address generation unit that generates a virtual MAC address for the optical network unit by using the acquired ID information; a connection identification unit that generates a logical path between the optical network unit and an optical line terminal by using the generated virtual MAC address as a MAC address for an LLID (Logical Link ID); and a signal processing unit that refers to a table in which the identification information acquired by the virtual MAC address generation unit and the LLID are associated with each other to pass, to the terminal device, data transmitted and received using the logical path generated by the connection identification unit.

Optical network unit, communication network system and communication method

An object of the present disclosure is to enable an ONU to acquire ID information of terminal devices even when a network device is connected between the ONU and the terminal devices, and to thereby enable generation of a logical path between the ONU and the OLT. The present disclosure relates to an optical communication network system configured to connect a terminal device and a passive optical network (PON) system via a network device. The PON system includes an optical line terminal and an optical network unit connected using an optical transmission line. The network device is configured to acquire ID information of the terminal device, and notify the optical network unit of the acquired ID information. The optical network unit is configured to acquire ID information of the terminal device from the network device, and generate a logical path to the optical line terminal on the optical transmission line using the acquired ID information.

Optical communication network system, optical network unit, and optical communication method

An object of the present disclosure is to enable an ONU to acquire ID information of terminal devices even when a network device is connected between the ONU and the terminal devices, and to thereby enable generation of a logical path between the ONU and the OLT. The present disclosure relates to an optical communication network system configured to connect terminal devices and a passive optical network (PON) system via a network device. The PON system includes an optical line terminal and an optical network unit connected using an optical transmission line. The optical network unit is configured to construct a tunnel to the network device, acquire ID information of the terminal devices connected to the network device from the terminal devices via the tunnel, and generates a logical path to the optical line terminal on the optical transmission line using the acquired ID information.

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Musashino, Japan

Takuya Abe