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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2022
Harmonic, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Andrey Ter-Zakhariants, San Jose, CA (US);
Ihor Kopieichyk, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nagesh Nandiraju, Willow Grove, PA (US);
Robert Gaydos, Harleysville, PA (US);
Howard Abramson, San Jose, CA (US);
Roman Balashevych, Kyiv, UA;
Jason Combs, San Jose, PA (US);
Harmonic, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Ensuring the high availability of a Passive Optical Network (PON). A broadband network architecture comprises (a) at least a portion of optical fiber in a communication path to individual subscriber premises, (b) one or more software-implemented Optical Line Terminal (OLT) Controllers, (c) one or more software-implemented Service Provisioning Applications (SPAs), and (d) one or more software-implemented Broadband Network Gateways (BNGs). Each of the one or more OLT Controllers, one or more SPAs, and one or more BNGs execute on Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) computer systems and entirely upon a plurality of protection groups. Each of the plurality of protection groups consists of a plurality of pods. The pods in a particular protection group which are active are dynamically adjusted to ensure the high availability of the broadband network architecture.