Low power optical network terminal and method of operating low power optical network terminal

A method of operating a low power optical network terminal (ONT), the method implemented by the low power ONT, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a network multi access computer (MAC) processing unit in the low power ONT, traffic from an optical line terminal (OLT);
• controlling, by a control unit in the low power ONT, traffic transmission from the network MAC processing unit when a power mode is a low power mode, and when the power mode is out of the low power mode, allowing the network MAC processing unit to transmit the traffic;
• and
• receiving, by a switching unit in the low power ONT, the transmitted traffic and transmitting the traffic to a subscriber terminal when the traffic is transmitted.