Patent attributes
Disclosed is a point-to-point emulation method for operating an Ethernet passive optical network having an optical line terminal (OLT) and a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) each connected to the OLT. A tag Ethernet frame transmitted between the OLT and the ONUs includes a destination address (DA) field representing a destination address, a source address (SA) field representing a source address, and an LLID field in which a unique LLID assigned to an object of the ONU side is recorded. The LLIDs are assigned to ports of a bridge or an L2 (Layer 2) switch of the OLT side on a one-to-one basis. The OLT, upon receiving a tag Ethernet frame, outputs an LLID field-deleted Ethernet frame to the bridge or L2 switch port to which an LLID in the received frame is assigned. The bridge or the L2 switch transmits the Ethernet frame to a port to which a previously learned destination address is assigned. The OLT regenerates a tag Ethernet frame by inserting into the Ethernet frame an LLID field in which an LLID of the destination ONU is recorded. The regenerated tag Ethernet frame is transmitted to the destination ONU.
