Patent ID: 9641454
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04Q

Claim:
1. A method comprising: providing a point of presence (POP) for serving N users comprising: providing the communication path supporting the K+S channels comprising an optical link from the POP coupled to an optical multiplexer capable of transmitting a multi-channel optical stream to all output ports of the optical multiplexer; and providing a plurality of second bidirectional transceiver elements, each bidirectional transceiver coupled to an output of the optical multiplexer and comprising a transmitter operating at a third predetermined channel of the plurality of S channels and a receiver operating a fourth predetermined channel of the plurality of K channels; serving via the POP the N users with downstream services via the K channels of the communication path supporting K+S channels and the optical multiplexer and with upstream services via the S channels of the communication path supporting K+S channels.