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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1998
Michael I. Distefano, Freehold Township, Monmouth County, NJ (US);
Thomas A. Halliday, Ocean Township, Monmouth County, NJ (US);
Frank J. Peragine, Fair Haven Township, Monmouth County, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A common Modular Carrier (MC) unit shares power and control among a plurality of Optical Network Units (ONU) which are plugged into it, thereby increasing the ONU density in an existing equipment shelf. In one embodiment, the MC unit together with its four ONU units is arranged to slide into an existing card slot of the existing equipment shelf and occupy the space of the adjacent slot. The result is a doubling of the capacity over the conventional technique of using a separate slot for each ONU unit.