BroadLight Awarded a Key PON Patent

BroadLight has been awarded a U.S patent (number 7,573,897) for a "method and grant scheduler for cyclically allocating time slots to optical network units." The patent applies to a grant scheduler and method for cyclically allocating time slots to traffic container (T-CONTs) included in one or more optical network units (ONUs) for transmitting respective data based on known respective service level agreements (SLA) for each T-CONT.
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