Connector and receptacle containing a physical security feature

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2007-02-27

2007-02-27

Le, Thanh-Tam (Department: 2839)

Optical waveguides

With disengagable mechanical connector

Structure surrounding optical fiber-to-fiber connection

C439S680000

Reexamination Certificate

active

11025090

ABSTRACT:
An optical network comprising: (a) a plurality of different optical fiber receptacles for facilitating an optical connection to different information networks requiring different access authorization, each different optical fiber receptacle optically coupled to one and only one different information network, each optical fiber receptacle having an inner surface with a first geometry, the first geometry comprising at least a slot, a certain number of optical fiber receptacles having different first geometries in which the slots are in different positions; and (b) a plurality of different optical fiber plugs for optically coupling with the different optical fiber receptacles, each optical fiber plug having a second geometry, the second geometry comprising at least a key in a certain position, the certain number of optical fiber plugs having different second geometries in which the keys are in different positions, each different first geometry corresponding to one and only one second geometry such that the optical fiber plugs and receptacles of corresponding first and second geometries are mating pairs.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4596436 (1986-06-01), Kraemer et al.
patent: 5729644 (1998-03-01), Shiflett et al.
patent: 2002/0126960 (2002-09-01), Gurreri

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