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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.