Patent ID: 8903244

Claim:
An optical network terminal comprising: a base unit having: an integral optical interface to optically couple the optical network terminal to an optical network in communication with a service provider network and to convert an optical signal received from the optical network to a first electrical signals signal, the optical signal associated with a first service having a first data rate and a second service having a second data rate; and an integral network interface to distribute the first electrical signal within a customer premises to provide the first and second services to the customer premises; and a modular interface to configure a plug-in service module to cause the service provider network to provide the first and second services to the optical network terminal via a wireless network, the modular interface to receive the plug in service module and to communicatively couple the integral network interface of the base unit to the plug in service module in response to a disruption of the optical signal being detected, the modular interface to enable the plug-in service module to continue to provide the first service when the first data rate is below a threshold value, and to disable the second service when the second data rate is above the threshold value.