Abstract

With the push for more information at faster speeds to the home, there has been a push to replace wire cable with fiber cable. One architectural approach to fiber in the last mile is to separate data and broadcast to the home one two separate fibers. However, a third communication channel is necessary to transport data from the home. One approach to this problem is to utilize one of the fibers for incoming data and outgoing data. Thus, a method for single fiber bi-directional communication is necessary.

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