Burst mode digital diagnostic and control for passive optical network receiving

1. An optical line termination, comprising:

instructions stored on a computer-readable medium, the instructions including a digital diagnostic table, and

a plurality of entries within the diagnostic table, wherein a first entry is associated with a first optical network unit, the first entry including at least one setting for performing burst mode digital diagnostic processes using a first burst mode transmission received from the first optical network unit,

wherein the at least one setting for performing burst mode digital diagnostic processes includes optical receiving information which is applied as receiver settings at the optical line termination before the first burst mode transmission is received from the first optical network unit.

2. The optical line termination of claim 1 , further comprising a setting application module configured to analyze the first burst mode transmission to prepare at least one optimized setting and to store the optimized setting in the first entry associated with the first optical network unit for application to subsequent burst mode transmissions from the first optical network unit.

3. The optical line termination of claim 1 , wherein the first setting includes at least one of receiving settings, detection threshold, and phase settings.

4. The optical line termination of claim 3 , wherein the optical line termination is configured to use the first power gain setting of a transmit power of the first optical network unit to synchronize receive power for a receiver.

5. The optical line termination of claim 1 , further comprising each of the plurality of entries being associated with a different optical network unit and each entry including settings specific to an optical network unit associated therewith.

6. The optical line termination of claim 1 , further comprising at least one digital filter associated with each of the entries in the digital diagnostics table.

7. The optical line termination of claim 1 , further comprising a switch configured to selectively enable and disable use of the digital diagnostic table.

8. A passive optical network, comprising:

an optical line termination;

a first optical network unit configured to send burst mode transmissions;

a first network segment coupling the first optical network unit to the optical line termination;

a digital diagnostics table residing on the optical line termination, the digital diagnostics table include at least one entry specific to the first optical network unit configured to send burst mode transmissions; and

a receiver coupled to the optical line termination, wherein the at least one entry in the digital diagnostics table includes at least one setting for performing burst mode digital diagnostic processes, the at least one setting including optical receiving information which is applied as receiver settings at the receiver before the first burst mode transmission is received from the first optical network unit.

9. The passive optical network of claim 8 , wherein the settings for providing digital diagnostics include at least one power gain setting.

10. The passive optical network of claim 9 , wherein the optical line termination is configured to analyze a burst mode transmission from a first optical network unit to prepare optimized settings for the first optical network unit and to store the optimized settings in the entry associated with the first optical network unit.

11. The passive optical network of claim 9 , wherein the receiver is configured to analyze a burst mode transmission from a first optical network unit to prepare optimized settings for the first optical network unit and to store the optimized settings in the entry associated with the first optical network unit.

12. The passive optical network of claim 8 , wherein the optical line termination is configured to use the at least one entry to synchronize receiver power settings for the receiver to transmit power settings for the first optical network unit.

13. The passive optical network of claim 8 , wherein the optical line termination is configured to identify which optical network unit sent a burst mode transmission by analyzing a machine address control address included in the burst mode transmission.

14. The passive optical network of claim 8 , further comprising at least one digital filter associated with the at least one entry specific to the first optical network unit, the at least one digital filter configured to remove noise associated with the first optical network unit at the optical line termination.

15. A method of performing digital diagnostics, comprising:

receiving at an optical line termination a first burst mode transmission from a first optical network unit;

identifying the first optical network unit from data contained in the first burst mode transmission;

accessing a digital diagnostics table associated with the first optical network unit, the table including at least one setting specific to the first optical network unit for performing digital diagnostics using the first burst mode transmission, wherein the at least one setting specific to the first optical network includes an optimal receiver setting for the optical line termination for receiving the first burst mode transmission from the first optical network;

applying at least one setting specific for performing digital diagnostics using the first burst mode transmission; and

applying the optimal receiver setting at the optical line termination.

16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising preparing optimized settings for use with a second burst mode transmission from the first optical network, the second burst mode transmission being subsequent to the first burst mode transmission.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein preparing optimized settings for use with a second burst mode transmission is performed in the optical line termination.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein identifying the first optical network unit includes receiving a machine address control address.

19. The method of claim 15 , wherein applying at least one setting specific for performing digital diagnostics using the first burst mode transmission includes applying at least one power gain setting to synchronize a receive power setting for a receiver to a transmit power for the first optical network unit.

20. The method of claim 15 , further comprising, after identifying the first optical network unit from data contained in the first burst mode transmission, passing the first burst mode transmission through a digital filter to remove noise associated with the first optical network unit.