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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2011
Ryan Edgar Hirth, Windsor, CA (US);
Robin C. Grindley, San Rafael, CA (US);
Rajiv S. Dighe, Petaluma, CA (US);
Glen Kramer, Petaluma, CA (US);
Thyagarajan T. Subramanian, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Vafa Christopher Moezzi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Edward Wayne Boyd, Petaluma, CA (US);
Ryan Edgar Hirth, Windsor, CA (US);
Robin C. Grindley, San Rafael, CA (US);
Rajiv S. Dighe, Petaluma, CA (US);
Glen Kramer, Petaluma, CA (US);
Thyagarajan T. Subramanian, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Vafa Christopher Moezzi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Edward Wayne Boyd, Petaluma, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a scalable optical network unit (ONU) architecture for multi-dwelling units (MDUs) that has a low initial cost (or first port cost) and a low maintenance cost are provided herein. The ONU architecture is scalable in that a growing number of end users can share a single drop fiber that couples the ONU to a passive optical network. The ONU architecture utilizes a multiplexer module to allow the ONU to be daisy chained with one or more additional ONUs.