Patent ID: 8090262

Claim:
An optical network system, comprising: a Provider Edge (PE), adapted to provide optical network access for a Customer Edge (CE) wherein the CE and the PE are used for mutually complementing services; a service time distribution database, adapted to store CE information in the mutually complementing services and working time segments corresponding to the CE information; a handover equipment between the PE and the CE, adapted to process at least one task of the following tasks: (1) disconnecting the CE when it finishes working at a handover time and (2) connecting the PE with the CE for working in a time segment following the handover time; and a Virtual Private Network (VPN) manager, adapted to read the CE information in the mutually complementing services and the working time segments from the service time distribution database, determine the handover time, notify the handover equipment to perform handover at the handover time.