Patent ID: 8285143

Claim:
A method of allocating a bandwidth of a PON, comprising: transmitting downward data to a plurality of ONTs through a first wavelength for a downward wavelength time period in which an OLT is set and receiving upward data and a report message including a requirement for a bandwidth of the plurality of ONTs from the plurality of ONTs through the first wavelength; setting a downward wavelength time period of a second wavelength according to the report message and a wavelength band allocation reference and dynamically allocating a bandwidth of upward transmission based on the downward wavelength time period; and transmitting a gate message including downward data and the changed bandwidth information of upward transmission to the plurality of ONTs through the second wavelength for the preset downward wavelength time period, wherein the dynamic allocating of a bandwidth comprises allocating, when a wavelength band allocation reference is minimum allocation, a downward wavelength time period and a bandwidth of the second wavelength by recording a data amount of a downward buffer at a time point when downward data transmission of the first wavelength is terminated and by selecting a minimum value among a bandwidth requested through the report message and data of the downward buffer.