Retagging of VLAN upstream messages
US9794086B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 21, 2008 |
| Grant date | Oct 17, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 21, 2028 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04Q2011/0088
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention discloses a message processing method of optical network termination (ONT), including: the ONT receiving an uplink message; the ONT performing a corresponding VLAN tagging operation in accordance with the characteristic value of the uplink message, wherein at least two types of uplink messages with different characteristic values have different VLAN Tags after the uplink messages are processed by the ONT. The present invention also discloses a VLAN Tag processing apparatus, an optical network termination (ONT), and a passive optical network system, which enable subsequent network devices to process the messages from the ONT in diverse ways.
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