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AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsEdward Wayne BOYD, Sanjay GOSWAMI
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Embodiments allow for EPON MAC traffic to be sub-rated according to available bandwidth and/or transmission capacity of the physical medium. EPON MAC traffic sub-rating is performed in the PHY layer. The PHY layer performing the sub-rating may be located anywhere in the communication path supporting the end-to-end EPON MAC link. Because the sub-rating is performed in the PHY layer, the EPON MAC layer at either end of the EPON MAC link is unaware of the sub-rating being performed, and thus continues to operate as it would normally according to the IEEE standard that it implements.
A method for sub-rating Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) Medium Access Control (MAC) traffic over a communication link, comprising:
A physical layer (PHY) chip, comprising:
A computer program product comprising a computer useable hardware medium having computer program logic recorded thereon, the computer logic when executed by a processor enabling sub-rating of Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) Medium Access Control (MAC) traffic over a communication link according to a method, the method comprising:
A method for sub-rating downstream Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) Medium Access Control (MAC) traffic, comprising:
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