Advanced optical fiber communications network

A fiber optic communications network comprising:

• a telecommunications central office receiving and transmitting communications and information signals;
• a plurality of customer premises, each one of said customer premises having:
• an intelligent interface device receiving and transmitting said communications and information signals and performing wavelength division multiplexing and demultiplexing of said communications and information signals, and
• either one terminal device performing services requiring different bandwidth allocations or a plurality of terminal devices requiring different bandwidth allocations;
• a fiber optic transmission path connecting said telecommunications central office to said intelligent interface device in said one customer premises, said telecommunications central office controllably transmitting optical signals corresponding to said communications and information signals to said one customer premises over said fiber optic transmission path and receiving optical signals from said one customer premises over said fiber optic transmission path;
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• a plurality of service definition modules in the intelligent interface device of each one of said plurality of customer premises, said service definition modules controlling said wavelength division multiplexing and demultiplexing of said communications and information signals so as to dynamically provide said different bandwidth allocations over said fiber optic transmission path connecting said telecommunications central office to said intelligent interface device in said customer premises.