Disclosed is an optical network unit of an access network for converging
broadcast/telecommunication by employing IEEE 1394. The optical network
unit processes the broadcast data and the communication data delivered
from the optical line terminal according to each corresponding subscriber
and delivering the broadcast data and the communication data to each
corresponding subscriber. Furthermore, the optical network unit includes
a synchronous optical network (SONET) demultiplexer for receiving the
broadcast data from the optical line terminal to demultiplex the
broadcast data according to each broadcast channel, a broadcast switch
part for switching data of each broadcast channel, demultiplexed by the
synchronous optical network (SONET) demultiplexer, according to each
subscriber unit to deliver the data to each subscriber unit, an Internet
protocol (IP) control part for receiving the communication data from the
optical line terminal, a main control part for controlling switching with
respect to the data according to each channel of each subscriber unit in
the broadcast switch part and delivering the communication data from the
IP control part to each subscriber unit, a 1394 link layer
controller/physical layer controller for converting the data of each
broadcast channel delivered from the broadcast switch part and the
communication data from the main control part into data of an IEEE 1394
format to deliver the data of the IEEE 1394 format, and an optical
transmitting/receiving part for performing optical transmission together
with the subscriber units.