Yotta Networks, Inc.

Mitch Entezari

Lakshman S Tamil

Bing Li

David F Wolf

Scott A Rothrock

Frederick Rush

Lee Dobson McFearin

Gopalakrishnan Hari

Alexander A Smith

Earl Ponceti

Justin Hunt

Glen Collier

Allesandro Fabbri

Quan Jiang

Joseph M McQuade

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for routing optical data. In one embodiment of the present invention, data can routed in a non-blocking fashion from a plurality of the ingress edge units to a plurality of egress edge units by selectively connecting the ingress edge units to the egress edge units at a photonic core. Switching at the photonic core can be driven by a clock signal and does not require an electrical to optical conversion to occur at the core. This can allow switching on the nanosecond level, substantially faster than many prior art systems.

System and method of routing data at a photonic core

Systems and methods for optical cross connects which switch data at a container (packet) level. In one embodiment, a plurality of optical switch edges are coupled to an optical switch core via a minimal number of optical fibers. The switch core is configured to optically switch data from an ingress edge to one of a plurality of egress edges in a nonblocking fashion. The ingress edge receives data streams and distributes the data among a plurality of container processors. Each of these container processors produces an optical signal of a different wavelength, which can then be multiplexed with others to form a multiple-wavelength optical signal that is transmitted to the switch core. The switch core then switches successive portions (containers) of the multiple-wavelength signal to the egress edges to which they are respectively destined. The respective egress edges perform the reverse of this process to form output data signals.

Container based crossconnect

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Highland Village, TX, United States of America

Mitch Entezari