Configurable network router

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2011-04-26

2011-04-26

Nguyen, Hanh (Department: 2473)

Multiplex communications

Pathfinding or routing

Switching a message which includes an address header

C370S350000, C398S045000, C398S123000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07933266

ABSTRACT:
A signal router, configured to receive information carried by a first signal and transmit the information on a second signal, is described. The signal router, using routing information it gathers, selects the second signal from a number of signals, with the first and the second signals differing in at least one physical characteristic. The signal router operates in a network of a number of such signal routers, and so each one of the signal routers is coupled to at least one of the other signal routers. The routing information is used to create a circuit from a first one of the signal routers to a second one of the signal routers. Once the circuit is created, the information is routed over the circuit. According to one aspect of the present invention, the signals are optical signals.

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