Patent ID: 9319171
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H04B,H04J,H04Q

Claim Text:
1. A coaxial line terminal (CLT) comprising: an optical port configured to couple to an optical line terminal (OLT) via a passive optical network (PON); an electrical port configured to couple to a coaxial network unit (CNU) via an electrical network; an index table having a plurality of first entries; a buffer having a plurality of second entries, wherein a first field of the first entries is configured to store a Logical Link Identifier (LLID) of the CNU and a second field of the plurality of first entries is configured to store a pointer to at least one of the second entries; a first-in first-out (FIFO) buffer configured to store one or more data transmission start times; and a buffer management unit coupled to the buffer, the index table, the FIFO buffer, the optical port, and the electrical port and configured to: instruct storage of data transmitted by the CNU and identified by the LLID in a first register of the plurality of second entries;