Communications network and method
US5469440A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 23, 1993 |
| Grant date | Nov 21, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 23, 2013 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L5/1476
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A TPON network in which the multiframe format includes a control portion, and a traffic portion. In the control portion the control word for each outstation is in the form of a respective group of contiguous bits. In the traffic portion, which is constituted by a series of traffic frames, the traffic information in each traffic frame for each outstation is in the form of a respective group of contiguous bits. Such a multiframe format enables the use of single-transducer transceiver in the outstations, and compared with known TPON multiframe formats increases the maximum operating range for the network beyond which transmit/receive conflict will occur.
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