An electrical connector has one or more body portions in which is disposed an electrical terminal having at least one contact pad interface for coupling to a contact pad of at least one printed circuit board. The system comprises a pair of subsystems that project light with different, complementary spatial distributions. The ONU transmitter transmits the encoded end user data to an optical line terminal receiver, which demodulates the data using a PAM demodulator and sends it to a service provider. An opticaltime cross-connect capable of wavelength conversion from an input to an output interface creates the datapath based on wavelength to wavelength substitution, under the control of a multi-protocol label switching protocol.