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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2017
Arris Enterprises Llc, Suwanee, GA (US);
Ayham Al-Banna, Orland Park, IL (US);
Lawrence C. Spaete, Jr., Naperville, IL (US);
Sebnem Zorlu Ozer, Perkasie, PA (US);
John Ulm, Pepperell, MA (US);
Amarildo Vieira, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Zoran Maricevic, West Hartford, CT (US);
Douglas Pieri, Westminster, CO (US);
ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Suwanee, GA (US);
Abstract
An OBI manager provides the reduction/elimination of optical beat interference (OBI). As will be described in more detail below, the OBI manager identifies OBI partners through an identification process performed via an RFoG network. An OBI partner may be two optical networking units (ONUs) that may interfere with one another when transmitting in the same time slot. Once the OBI partners are identified, the OBI manager may perform a mitigation process to mitigate possible OBI. For example, the OBI manager may organize the OBI partners to reduce OBI, such as by guaranteeing no OBI partners transmit at the same time.