Alcatel Lucent

Wilfred Sullivan

Bart Joseph Gerard Pauwels

Bakri Aboukarr

Arkin Aydin

Andrew Gordon Tomilson

Koen Hooghe

Mary Ann Condie

Guy Landry

Ronny Jozef Leon Peeters

Distributed communication equipment architectures and techniques are disclosed. A host system includes an expansion unit through which control information and communication traffic may be exchanged with an expansion system. The expansion system is thereby controllable by a controller at the host system, significantly simplifying the design and reducing the cost of the expansion system. The expansion unit for a host system may also provide one or more configurable communication link interfaces. Each configurable interface may be independently configured as a network-side interface for connection to upstream communication equipment or as an access-side expansion interface for connection to an expansion system, allowing provisioning of network and access interfaces at the host system as needed.

Distributed communication equipment architectures and techniques

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Ottawa, Canada

Wilfred Sullivan