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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2023
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes determining, by a standby optical line terminal (OLT), that a primary OLT has stopped sending a downlink optical signal over a first management channel; sending, by the standby OLT, a ranging request to a first optical network unit (ONU), over a second management channel, where the first ONU is one of the at least one ONU, and the second management channel is a channel between the standby OLT and the at least one ONU; and obtaining, by the standby OLT, a distance parameter between the first ONU and the standby OLT based on a ranging response received from the first ONU over the second management channel.