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PON system, subscriber-side terminal apparatus, station-side terminal apparatus, and power saving method

US9106984B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 21, 2009
Grant dateAug 11, 2015
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Expiry dateAug 21, 2029

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04Q2011/0079
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a PON system, an ONU includes a receive buffer that stores therein a signal in a downstream direction transmitted from an OLT and a PON control unit that controls transition to a power-saving state and transition to a normal state for the reception buffer. The OLT includes a transmission buffer that stores transmission data to be transmitted to the ONU and the PON control unit that transmits the downstream power-saving-state transition request that requests the ONU to transition to the downstream power-saving state when it is determined that transmission data addressed to the ONU is not present in the transmission buffer. The PON control unit sets the reception buffer to a power-saving state for a predetermined downstream sleep time requested based on the downstream power-saving-state transition request.

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