Flexible, dense line card architecture
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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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- 15 United States
- 10 France
- 8 Japan
- 7 China
- 5 Korea
- 2 Other
Patent Owner(s)
Patent Owner | Address | Total Patents |
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PIVOTAL DECISIONS LLC | LAS VEGAS, NV | 3 |
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Inventor(s)
Inventor Name | Address | # of filed Patents | Total Citations |
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Ayres,, III John W | 12118 Golden Meadow La. | 6 | 46 |
Cox, Jeffrey Lloyd | 280 Paddock Trail | 9 | 331 |
Sheth, Samir Satish | 6615 Desco Dr. | 9 | 331 |
Young, Marvin R | 4601 Deer Valley La. | 22 | 138 |
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6359729 Optical communication system and component control architectures and methods | 50 | 1999 | |
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6005702 Optical transmission device, WDM optical transmission apparatus, and optical transmission system using return-to-zero optical pulses | 78 | 1997 | |
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6275315 Apparatus for compensating for dispersion of optical fiber in an optical line | 58 | 1998 | |
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5995694 Wavelength division multiplex communication link for optical transmission | 69 | 1997 | |
2002/0131,115 Wavelength multiplex transmission method and system | 12 | 2002 | |
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6038062 Optical amplifier, method of controlling the output light from the optical amplifier, optical transmission system and method of controlling an optical transmission path | 58 | 1998 | |
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6246510 Light amplification apparatus with automatic monitoring and controls | 50 | 1999 | |
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2002/0009,060 Satellite transceiver card for bandwidth on demand applications | 50 | 2001 | |
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5778116 Photonic home area network fiber/power insertion apparatus | 135 | 1997 | |
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6288811 WDM optical communication system with channels supporting multiple data formats | 49 | 2000 | |
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6587236 Fiber optic errorless switching system | 12 | 2000 | |
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6295281 Symmetric flow control for ethernet full duplex buffered repeater | 55 | 1997 | |
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5790285 Lightwave communication monitoring system | 77 | 1996 | |
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6198559 Automatic delay compensation for generating NRZ signals from RZ signals in communications networks | 47 | 1998 | |
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5613210 Telecommunication network for transmitting information to a plurality of stations over a single channel | 42 | 1995 | |
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6288813 Apparatus and method for effecting data transfer between data systems | 47 | 1998 | |
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6160614 Method, apparatus and computer program product for classification of measured data from multi-core optical fiber | 41 | 1999 | |
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6259554 Optical amplifier repeater system | 47 | 1999 | |
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6654383 Multi-protocol agile framer | 32 | 2002 | |
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4710022 Method and apparatus for measuring chromatic dispersion coefficient | 48 | 1984 | |
5299048 Optical amplifier and optical communication system provided with the optical amplifier | 73 | 1992 | |
5737118 Optical amplifying apparatus | 64 | 1996 | |
5877881 Optical transmission system | 67 | 1996 | |
5936753 Optical network system | 45 | 1997 | |
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6388801 Optical amplification apparatus utilizing Raman amplification and controlling method thereof | 76 | 2001 | |
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6151334 System and method for sending multiple data signals over a serial link | 123 | 1998 | |
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6226296 Metropolitan area network switching system and method of operation thereof | 65 | 1997 | |
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6317255 Method and apparatus for controlling optical signal power in response to faults in an optical fiber path | 74 | 1998 | |
6323950 Chromatic dispersion measurement for optical components | 47 | 1999 | |
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5559625 Distributive communications network | 70 | 1995 | |
5963350 Optical telecommunications network | 79 | 1996 | |
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2003/0161,351 Synchronizing and converting the size of data frames | 14 | 2002 | |
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6157477 Bidirectional dispersion compensation system | 56 | 1998 | |
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5914799 Optical network | 58 | 1996 | |
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5903613 Data reception device, data reception method and electronic equipment | 51 | 1997 | |
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* 6430201 Method and apparatus for transporting gigabit ethernet and fiber channel signals in wavelength-division multiplexed systems | 58 | 1999 | |
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6519082 Apparatus and method for a self-adjusting Raman amplifier | 65 | 2002 | |
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4636859 Didon digital demodulator | 39 | 1985 | |
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* 6915036 Field reconfigurable line cards for an optical transport system | 8 | 2002 | |
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2002/0172,293 Non-zero complex weighted space-time code for multiple antenna transmission | 63 | 2001 | |
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6259693 Cell combination to utilize available switch bandwidth | 73 | 1997 | |
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6229599 Apparatus for measuring characteristics of an optical fiber | 61 | 1999 | |
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6075634 Gigabit data rate extended range fiber optic communication system and transponder therefor | 68 | 1998 | |
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6173094 Optical-transmission system having a split-gain amplifier and a signal-modifying device | 44 | 1999 | |
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6327060 Optical transmission system, optically branching apparatus and optical signal processing apparatus | 46 | 1998 | |
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* 7295783 Digital optical network architecture | 20 | 2002 | |
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6021245 Method and optical transmission system for compensating dispersion in optical transmission paths | 53 | 1998 | |
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5812290 Optical switching unit and control method for same | 52 | 1996 | |
6078414 Optical transmitter system | 51 | 1997 | |
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7167648 System and method for an ethernet optical area network | 12 | 2001 | |
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5225922 Optical transmission system equalizer | 171 | 1991 | |
5321541 Passive optical communication network with broadband upgrade | 109 | 1992 | |
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5455703 Fiber optic transceiver with integrated coupler | 71 | 1993 | |
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6236481 Method and apparatus for providing loss equalization and adjustment in a fiber optic network | 58 | 1999 | |
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* 7099584 Advanced error correcting optical transport network | 13 | 2002 | |
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6567413 Optical networking module including protocol processing and unified software control | 29 | 2001 | |
* 7164692 Apparatus and method for transmitting 10 Gigabit Ethernet LAN signals over a transport system | 31 | 2003 | |
* 2006/0002,419 Apparatus and method for transmitting 10 Gigabit Ethernet LAN signals over a transport system | 27 | 2005 | |
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2002/0012,152 Methods and systems for digitally processing optical data signals | 98 | 2001 | |
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6775799 Protocol independent performance monitor with selectable FEC encoding and decoding | 19 | 2000 | |
6782009 Multi-port data arbitration control | 13 | 2000 | |
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6356384 Broadband amplifier and communication system | 101 | 2000 | |
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* 7209667 Methods of connecting and testing interfaces for CWDM fiber-optic systems | 24 | 2001 | |
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5914794 Method of and apparatus for detecting and reporting faults in an all-optical communications system | 89 | 1996 | |
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6088152 Optical amplifier arranged to offset Raman gain | 95 | 1999 | |
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5726784 WDM optical communication system with remodulators and diverse optical transmitters | 101 | 1996 | |
6163392 Distributed intelligence wavelength division multiplexed network | 64 | 1997 | |
6259845 Dispersion compensating element having an adjustable dispersion | 48 | 1998 | |
6236499 Highly scalable modular optical amplifier based subsystem | 76 | 1999 | |
6084694 WDM optical network with passive pass-through at each node | 139 | 1999 | |
* 6618176 Remodulating channel selectors for WDM optical communication systems | 12 | 2001 | |
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6301340 Mechanism for providing emergency POTS service in event of loss of power to customer premises equipment for ISDN telephone lines | 22 | 1999 | |
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* 6895190 Switchable bandwidth lowpass filter | 9 | 2000 | |
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4535459 Signal detection apparatus | 129 | 1983 | |
5224183 Multiple wavelength division multiplexing signal compensation system and method using same | 121 | 1992 | |
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6272185 Method and apparatus for performing data pulse detection | 43 | 1998 | |
6396853 Providing data services to telecommunications user terminals | 55 | 1998 | |
6788681 Virtual private networks and methods for their operation | 139 | 2000 | |
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6678527 Multimedia and multiservice calls in mobile network | 17 | 2000 | |
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* 2003/0067,655 Methods and systems for integrated IP routers and long haul/ultra long haul optical communication transceivers | 25 | 2001 | |
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2001/0005,271 Device for applying time-delays to optical signals | 34 | 2000 | |
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* 2003/0002,118 Methods and apparatus for locking the phase between clock and data in return-to-zero modulation format | 13 | 2001 | |
* 2002/0141,013 Integrated optical networking transport/switching architecture | 7 | 2001 | |
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7245633 Multiplexing method for gigabit ethernet signals in the synchronous digital hierarchy | 20 | 2000 | |
* 6904237 Circuit for measurement of the signal quality in digital optical fiber transmission networks by interpreting the signal histogram | 6 | 2001 |
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