Patent ID: 7127167

Claim:
A fiberoptic access network, comprising: a central office; at least two end-user devices in optical communication with said central office, each end-user device including a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), each LED in said plurality of LEDs having a different color than other LEDs in said plurality of LEDs; and at least one coupler disposed between and in optical communication with said central office and said end-user devices, wherein downstream communications from said central office to said end-user devices are transmitted on a first wavelength, and upstream communications from each end-user device to said central office are transmitted on an upstream wavelength selected from said plurality of LEDs in said end-user device, wherein said upstream wavelength from said end-user device is different from upstream wavelengths from other end-user devices and wherein one of the plurality of LEDs can be dynamically selected for upstream transmission, and wherein a laser provides optical energy to carry communications, wherein each end user device comprises an adaptive equalizer that cancels noise generated by said laser.