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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
May. 26, 2009
Yukio Horiuchi, Saitama, JP;
Yukio Horiuchi, Saitama, JP;
KDDI Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An OLT includes a first transmitter and receiver unit for transmitting and receiving signals with ONUs, a first communication control timer, a measurement unit for measuring a round trip time (RTT) between the OLT and each of ONUs, an advance notice time generation unit for generating an advance notice time signal by adding a predetermined time to a time information that indicates a time in the first communication control timer in response to a first time reference pulse, and a unit for controlling the first transmitter and receiver unit to transmit the generated advance notice time signal to each of the ONUs, and to transmit signals indicating measured RTT/2 to the respective ones of the ONUs.