US Patent Issued to Calix on Sept. 8 for "Automatically provisioning optical network terminal (ONT) services to paired optical line terminal (OLT) devices" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,268, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Calix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatically provisioning optical network terminal (ONT) services to paired optical line terminal (OLT) devices" was invented by Panke Shi (Nanjing Jiangsu, China), Tian Deng (Nanjing Jiangsu, China) and Yongsheng Xue (Nanjing Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automating service provisioning for optical network terminals (ONTs) in a broadband network consisting of paired active and standby optical line terminals (OLTs). The OLTs are organized, based on configurable rules, into active and standby protection pairs in a passive optical network (PON). A ...