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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2003
Ho Yong Kang, Daejeon, KR;
Tae Whan Yoo, Daejeon, KR;
Hyeong Ho Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
Provided is a communication apparatus in a PON bridge sublayer, which supports point-to-point communications between optical network units (ONU) in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON). To support point-to-point communications between ONUs in the EPON, the communication apparatus in the PON bridge sublayer includes a second processing portion, a second input queue, a second lookup and learning portion, a second output queue, a first input queue, a first lookup and learning portion, a filtering database table a VLAN ID table, a table control portion, a first output queue, and a first processing portion.