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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2013
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical line terminal which includes an observing unit that observes information of any one or all of an arrival interval of frames, an instantaneous bandwidth under use of a flow, a queue length of a queue temporarily storing the frames, and a traffic type, and a stop determining unit that dynamically determines a sleep time to be a period in which a sleep state where partial functions of the ONU are stopped is maintained, on the basis of the information obtained by the observing unit. The ONU is entered into a sleep state, immediately after communication ends, after a predetermined waiting time passes from when the communication ends, or after a waiting time determined on the basis of the information passes from when the communication ends.