发明名称 |
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH OPTICAL BANDING AND OPTICAL MANAGEMENT BUS |
摘要 |
A communication system includes plural nodes interconnected with an optical transmission medium capable of carrying plural bands of optical channels. A device at each node is coupled to the medium for dropping one or more bands, adding one or more bands, and passively transmitting other bands such that a pair of nodes can communicate directly using a band common to the respective bands. One band of the bands associated with each of a first set of nodes overlaps with one band of the bands associated with each of a second set of nodes. Multiple overlapping bands provide a high level of wavelength termination diversity. An optical management bus system and method connects plural hybrid optical/electrical cables between transmission equipment and optical modules which connect to network fibers to provide a set of electrical connections that can be used to determine optical interconnections in an optical shelf configuration. A particular optical module can be identified as the root of an optical branching tree at a node and thereby the unique termination point of a network fiber such that a physical fiber topology can be associated with the logical fiber topology.
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申请公布号 |
WO0076105(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2000.12.14 |
申请号 |
WO2000US15799 |
申请日期 |
2000.06.09 |
申请人 |
ASTRAL POINT COMMUNICATIONS, INC. |
发明人 |
HUTCHISON, JERRY, D.;MILLER, BRUCE, D. |
分类号 |
H04J3/12;H04J14/02;(IPC1-7):H04J14/02 |
主分类号 |
H04J3/12 |
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