Patent ID: 8532489

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) coupler configured to couple to a next generation access (NGA) optical line terminal (OLT), to a non-NGA OLT, and to a plurality of optical network terminals (ONTs), wherein the NGA OLT comprises an optical transmitter and an optical receiver, wherein the ONTs comprise NGA ONTs and non-NGA ONTs, wherein the WDM coupler is configured to couple to the optical transmitter via a first fiber, to the optical receiver via a second fiber, and to the non-NGA OLT via a third fiber, wherein the WDM coupler is further configured to couple to a video transmitter, wherein each NGA ONT comprises a splitting filter configured to couple to the WDM coupler, a second optical transmitter coupled to the splitting filter, a second optical receiver coupled to the splitting filter, a video receiver, a first band pass filter coupled to the video receiver and positioned between the splitting filter and the WDM coupler, wherein the first band pass filter is configured to reflect a first downstream wavelength channel and a second downstream wavelength channel from the WDM coupler to the splitting filter and to let pass at least a portion of a video signal in a third downstream wavelength channel to the video receiver.