Patent ID: 9615153
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04Q

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: establishing, by an end network unit, a first wireless link with a first medium-to-medium adaptor coupled to an optical line terminal via a first passive optical network link; receiving, by the end network unit from the optical line terminal via the first wireless link with the first medium-to-medium adaptor, a first Ethernet frame comprising a resource apportionment identifier of an optical network protocol assigned to the end network unit at a first position in the first Ethernet frame different from a resource apportionment identifier of the Ethernet protocol, the resource apportionment identifier of the optical network protocol extracted by the first medium-to-medium adaptor from a first passive optical network frame transmitted by the optical line terminal and inserted into the Ethernet frame at the first position; subsequently establishing, by the end network unit, a second wireless link with a second medium-to-medium adaptor coupled to the optical line terminal via a second passive optical network link; and transmitting, by the end network unit to the second medium-to-medium adaptor via the second wireless link, a second Ethernet frame comprising a status report including the resource apportionment identifier of the optical network at the first position in the second Ethernet frame, the second medium-to-medium adaptor extracting the resource apportionment identifier of the optical network protocol from the first position in the second Ethernet frame and inserting the resource apportionment identifier into a second passive optical network frame transmitted via the second passive optical network link to the optical line terminal.