MIGRATABLE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK

摘要

A hybrid passive optical network (PON) includes a time-division multiplexing (TDM) optical line terminal (OLT) and a wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) OLT. The TDM OLT communicates with a first group of customer premises (CPs) via TDM signals while the WDM OLT communicates with a second group of CPs via WDM signals. A remote node power splitter is coupled to receive the TDM and WDM signals and broadcast both the TDM signals and the WDM signals on all of its ports facing towards the CPs. Optical filters are disposed between the remote node power splitter and the second group of CPs. Each optical filter is configured to pass a sub-group of the WDM signals while blocking other WDM signals such that each of the second group of CPs receives its own allocation of WDM signals but does not receive WDM signals allocated to other CPs of the second group of CPs.