Passive optical network (PON) system
A PON system capable of utilizing the bandwidth of an optical transmission channel in the PON section. In a PON system including an OLT and a plurality of ONUs, the OLT has: a downstream frame processing unit that removes at least part of the header information in a layer 2 header from a downstream frame received from a wide area network, and converts the remaining frame portion into a frame having a header specific to the PON section; and a downstream frame processing unit that extracts a downstream frame portion to be transferred to a user terminal, from a received frame from a PON, and adds the layer 2 header information deleted in the OLT.
1. A passive optical network (PON) system comprising: a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) accommodating a user terminal, an optical line unit (OLT) connected to a wide area network, and a passive optical network (PON) connected between the ONUs and the OLT; the OLT transferring a unicast downstream frame received from a communication node equipment in the wide area network to the plurality of ONUs via the PON; and the plurality of ONUs transferring the unicast downstream frame to the user terminal,
wherein the unicast downstream frame includes a Layer 2 header and an IP packet,
wherein the OLT has a frame analyzing unit that removes at least a part of Layer 2 header information from the Layer 2 header of the unicast downstream frame received from the communication node equipment and outputs the unicast downstream frame whose length is shortened, and a frame generating unit that generates a PON frame by adding a PONspecific header to the unicast downstream frame outputted from the frame analyzing unit, and
wherein each of the ONUs has a table that corresponds IP addresses with MAC addresses and a downstream frame processing unit that extracts an IP address of the unicast downstream frame from the PON frame received via the PON, and adds Layer 2 header information generated in each ONU based on the table into the unicast downstream frame from which the at least part of the Layer 2 header information has been removed by the OLT,
wherein a downstream frame which the OLT received from the communication node equipment contains an Ethernet header as a Layer 2 header,
wherein the frame analyzing unit of the OLT removes at least a destination MAC address, a source MAC address, and a protocol type from the Layer 2 header information of the downstream frame, and
wherein the downstream frame processing unit of each ONU adds at least a destination MAC address, a source MAC address, and a protocol type generated therein as the Layer 2 header information to the downstream frame extracted from the PON frame received from the OLT via the PON.
2. The PON system of claim 1 , wherein the downstream frame processing unit of each ONU determines whether or not the PON frame to be processed in each ONU for receiving the PON frame is included based on identification information in the PON-specific header of the PON frame received from the OLT, and discards the PON frame when the PON frame does not include the frame to be processed in each ONU for receiving the PON frame.