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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2015
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Furusawa, Tokyo, JP;
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A station-side terminal apparatus comprises terminal devices and a terminal device sorting unit. The terminal devices includes: a buffer unit; a subscriber-side terminal apparatus sorting unit configured to transmit a unicast packet addressed to a switch-target subscriber-side terminal apparatus to the switch queues, and transmit a packet addressed to a plurality of subscriber-side terminal apparatuses to the broadcast queue, and transmit a unicast packet addressed to a non-switch-target subscriber-side terminal apparatus to the through queue; and a scheduler unit configured to read a packet from the switch queues, the broadcast queue, and the through queue. The terminal device sorting unit is configured to transmit a received unicast packet to the terminal device, and transmit a received packet addressed to a plurality of subscriber-side terminal apparatuses, to each of the terminal devices.