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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2007
Applicants:
David Z. Chen, Richardson, TX (US);
Joseph M. Finn, Upper Saddle River, NJ (US);
Steven Gringeri, Foxboro, MA (US);
Inventors:
David Z. Chen, Richardson, TX (US);
Joseph M. Finn, Upper Saddle River, NJ (US);
Steven Gringeri, Foxboro, MA (US);
Assignee:
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A device determines a bandwidth demand for traffic provided between a line terminal (LT) and multiple optical network terminals (ONTs), and dynamically tunes, based on the determined bandwidth demand, one or more tunable filters provided in the LT and the multiple ONTs to one of balance the traffic, protect the traffic, or increase available bandwidth for the traffic.