Optical communications – Multiplex – Optical switching
Reexamination Certificate
2007-09-04
2007-09-04
Phan, Hanh (Department: 2613)
Optical communications
Multiplex
Optical switching
C398S045000, C398S046000, C398S047000, C398S048000, C398S049000, C398S050000, C398S052000, C398S053000, C398S054000, C398S055000, C398S056000, C398S057000, C398S058000, C398S059000, C398S079000, C398S083000, C398S164000, C370S217000, C370S218000, C370S222000, C370S223000, C370S360000, C370S389000, C370S489000, C370S468000, C370S466000, C370S474000, C370S395200
Reexamination Certificate
active
10418487
ABSTRACT:
A modular reconfigurable multi-server system with hybrid optical and electrical switching fabrics for high-speed networking within a wavelength-division-multiplexed based photonic burst-switched (PBS) network with variable time slot provisioning. An optical high-speed I/O module within the multi-server system includes an optical switch with the control interface unit. A server module of the multi-server system statistically multiplexes IP packets and/or Ethernet frames to be transmitted over the PBS network, generate control and data bursts and schedule their transmission. Then, the server E-O converts the bursts, and then transmits the optical bursts to the optical I/O module. The optical I/O module then optically transmits the bursts to the next hop in the optical path after processing the optical control burst to configure the optical switch, which then optically switches the optical data burst without performing an O-E-O conversion.
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