公开(公告)号：US20250167886A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-22

申请号：US18513465

申请日：2023-11-17

Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.

Inventor： Ricky Perry ,  Kristofer Flores ,  Todd Swenson ,  Wendy Thompson ,  Shawn Turner

IPC: H04B10/077 ,  H04B10/079 ,  H04L41/0631 ,  H04L67/00

Abstract: A method for validating service continuity of deployed fiber serving terminals in a passive optical network includes broadcasting, from a central office of a passive optical network, a beacon signal to a plurality of beacon responders, wherein each beacon responder of the plurality of beacon responders is connected to a respective fiber serving terminal of a plurality of fiber serving terminals of the passive optical network, changing a counter in response to each response message that is received from the plurality of beacon responders in response to the beacon signal, and generating a report indicating which fiber serving terminals of the plurality of fiber serving terminals are functioning properly and which fiber serving terminals of the plurality of fiber serving terminals are not functioning properly, based on whether a count of the counter is equal to an expected number of responses, after an expiration of a predefined period of time.