US Patent No: 7,729,617
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Flexible, dense line card architecture
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Jun 1, 2010
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Jun 4, 2003
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10/455,774
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Abstract
The invention is relevant to optical fiber transmission systems, and in particular, pertains to the transceiver cards in an optical fiber transport system. In particular the invention teaches an improved transceiver card architecture that allows high density, flexibility and interchangeability of functionality.
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| 6,160,614 Method, apparatus and computer program product for classification of measured data from multi-core optical fiber | 38 | 1999 | |
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