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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard J Proctor, Wimborne, GB;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/408 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/408 ;
Abstract
An optical communications network comprising a Head End Unit connected to a plurality of groups of Network Termination Equipments (NTE) and/or Optical Network Units (ONU), wherein downstream communication is by Time Division Multiplex, wherein a group is multiplexed onto a stream and a plurality of streams are combined into a higher speed multiplex and upstream communication is by Time Division Multiplex Access is characterized by enabling the NTE's or ONU's to negotiate bandwidth in respect of low level upstream traffic and by pre-allocating bandwidth to individual NTE's or ONU's in respect of high level upstream traffic.