(57) Unlike the conventional art which polices data at the entry points of a network, a
transceiver node can police or monitor downstream bandwidths for quality of service at exit …

A protocol for an optical network can control the time at which subscriber optical interfaces of
an optical network are permitted to transmit data to a transceiver node. The protocol can …

Mechanisms for providing a subscriber-side interface with a passive optical network are
described herein. An optical network termination (ONT) having an integrated broadband …

A method and system are provided for improving bandwidth efficiency in an optical network
by dynamically utilizing unused bandwidth located around preliminarily allocated optical …

A method and system for setting a variable forward error correction overhead in an optical
transport network frame for an optical link at a node are disclosed. In one embodiment, a …

An optical network broadcasts the same data on a plurality of wavelength channels from a
source network to destination network. The network elements of the optical network are …

A node in an optical communications network receives optical packets at its input. It
determines a priority assigned to each optical packet. When the optical packet is a transit …

Mechanisms for providing a subscriber-side interface with a passive optical network are
described herein. An optical network termination (ONT) having an integrated broadband …

Packets are received at a first boundary node of a long haul optical communication network
which may either interconnect originating and destination communication networks or form …

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION AS the traffic level of large users approaches the line rate
for a Single wavelength of light on a network operator's ring, there is an incentive to permit …