Patent ID: 8615168

Claim:
A pluggable transceiver for use in connecting a passive optical network to a digital subscriber line access multiplexer, the passive optical network including an optical line terminal configured for granting upstream transmission permissions to a plurality of optical networking units, the pluggable transceiver comprising: an optical fiber connector for transmitting and receiving optical signals through an optical fiber of the passive optical network; an optical networking unit containing computer-executable instructions thereon for controlling transmission on the optical fiber in accordance with permissions received from the optical line terminal; a pluggable interface for carrying signals between the transceiver and the digital subscriber line access multiplexer and for providing power from the digital subscriber line access multiplexer to the pluggable transceiver, the pluggable interface comprising firmware that is independent of firmware installed in the digital subscriber line access multiplexer; the pluggable transceiver further comprising a processor and non-transitory computer readable media having computer readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: detect, upon plug-in of the pluggable transceiver in the other network equipment, a port application of the other network equipment; dynamically adapt the pluggable transceiver to support the port application of the digital subscriber line access multiplexer; and communicate, via the pluggable interface and a multiplexing functionality of the digital subscriber line access multiplexer, with a plurality of customer premises digital subscriber line modems.