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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2015
Applicant:
Tibit Communications, Inc., Petaluma, CA (US);
Inventor:
Edward W Boyd, Petaluma, CA (US);
Assignee:
TIBIT COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Petaluma, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04B 10/27 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 11/0067 (2013.01); H04B 10/27 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0005 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0016 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0052 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0064 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment provides an apparatus for coupling a trunk network to a plurality of leaf passive optical networks (PONs). The apparatus includes one or more uplink ports for coupling to the trunk network, a plurality of downlink ports with a respective downlink port coupled to a leaf PON, and a switch chip for interconnecting the uplink ports and the downlink ports. The switch chip acts as a simple Ethernet switch with no traffic control ability.