Ciena Corporation

Catena Networks, Inc.

Robert Bisson

Marko Antonic

Adrianus P Van Gaal

Francois Tremblay

Timothy David Mombourquette

Andrew Douglas Thuswaldner

A printed circuit board includes a spread weave of fibers having a first direction and a second direction with corresponding fibers spread more in the first direction than the second direction; and one or more pairs of traces on the spread weave of fibers, wherein the first direction has less differences in dielectric permittivity seen by each trace than the second direction, wherein the one or more pairs of traces are routed according to a routing design that includes one or more fixed regions on the spread weave of fibers, where routing of traces therein is restricted to linear, non-angled routed in the first direction.

Spread weave induced skew minimization

A method of manufacturing a printed circuit board (PCB) includes determining a weft direction of the PCB, and defining a routing design of differential pairs. The routing design is designed to have a fixed region in the weft direction. The method further includes manufacturing the PCB according to the routing design.

A backplane system for a high-speed network element includes a main backplane including a plurality of traces for data and control connectivity, high-speed data connectors, and a power connector, wherein the high-speed data connectors and the power connector are configured to engage one or more modules; and a power backplane for power connectivity separate from the main backplane connected to the power connector, wherein the power backplane is coupled to a power source to provide supply and return current to the one or more modules through the power connector.

Offloaded backplane for power distribution in high-speed data applications

A telephone line feed circuit for use with a telecommunication line has dual drivers with differing ratio transformer taps and a sensing circuit so that under normal drive conditions a first driver supplies substantially all power through a first transformer of a first turns ratio under normal in put signal conditions and a second driver supplies substantially all power through a second transformer of a second turns ratio under high crest factor input signal conditions.

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