GIGABIT PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK TRANSMISSION CONVERGENCE EXTENSION FOR NEXT GENERATION ACCESS Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC H04J14/08 

FIELD: physics, communications.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a passive optical network and is meant to support higher transmission speeds or a larger number of optical network entities. The invention discloses an apparatus which includes at least one component configured to realise a method comprising steps for: encapsulating a data stream into at least one Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) Encapsulation Method (GEM) frame, wherein the GEM frame has a header aligned with a word boundary with length of at least approximately four bytes; encapsulating the GEM frame into a GPON Transmission Convergence (GTC) frame, wherein the GTC frame contains network control and management information aligned with the word boundary; and transmitting the GTC frame.

EFFECT: supporting higher transmission speeds or a large number of optical network entities.

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