Patent ID: 8885652

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a time domain multiplexing (TDM) to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) or bounded Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) channels HOT passive optical network (PON) converter configured to couple to an optical line terminal (OLT) via an optical fiber and to a plurality of network terminals (NTs) via a point-to-multipoint coaxial cable and configured to transmit TDM data from the OLT using OFDM or bounded QAM channels to the corresponding NTs, wherein the OFDM or bounded QAM channels transmission of TDM data maintains End-to-End (E2E) TDM PON protocols, service provisioning, and quality of service (QoS), and wherein the HOT PON converter comprises a QAM/OFDM coding module and framer for converting downstream signals from the OLT to the NTs.