Patent ID: 7876762
Filing Date: 2011-01-25
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A passive optical network (PON) element, which is an optical network terminal (ONT), comprising: a PON protocol processing module; an Ethernet module connected to the PON protocol processing module and comprising a media access control (MAC) bridge port configuration data management entity (ME) and an Ethernet service termination point ME, wherein the Ethernet service termination point ME is directly connected to the MAC bridge port configuration data ME, and the Ethernet the MAC bridge port configuration data ME is adapted to configure a MAC bridge port and the Ethernet service termination point ME is adapted to configure parameters for ending or initiating an Ethernet service, the parameters comprising a MAC address of the ONT, a remote MAC address, and strategies of adding virtual local area network (VLAN) tags to an uplink frame; and at least one service module based on Ethernet connected to the PON protocol processing module via the Ethernet module and comprising at least one non-Ethernet service functional termination point ME correlated with the Ethernet service termination point ME, wherein the at least one non-Ethernet service functional termination point ME is adapted to configure parameters of a service over Ethernet that are used to support a transmission of the non-Ethernet service over Ethernet in Giga-bit PON (GPON) packet transmission; wherein each of the MAC bridge port configuration data ME, the Ethernet service termination point ME and the non-Ethernet service functional termination point ME is a basic unit of a management information base (MIB); wherein the at least one non-Ethernet service functional termination point ME is connected to the Ethernet service termination point ME through an internal UNI between the Ethernet module and the at least one service module based on Ethernet, and connected to the MAC bridge port configuration data ME via the Ethernet service termination point ME.