Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1991-03-21
1993-05-18
Olms, Douglas W.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
370 24, H04L 516
Patent
active
052126854
ABSTRACT:
An interface circuit for connecting an electrical half-duplex system to an optical simplex system includes logic which permits keep-alive signals to be gated onto the transmitting simplex fiber when data is not being received on the half-duplex conductor. The interface circuit includes receive logic connected in parallel with the receive data path. The receive logic responds to predetermined bit patterns in the received data to control the receive and transmit data path connections. The interface circuit also includes transmit logic connected in parallel with the transmit data path. The transmit logic responds to bit patterns in the data on the transmit data path to selectively gate the output of a keep-alive oscillator onto the transmit simplex fiber.
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Stilwell, Jr. George R.
Vojnovich Theodore B.
Walker Robert L.
Hsu Alpus H.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Keohane Stephen T.
Olms Douglas W.
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