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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2018
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Nitin Kumar Goel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sung Woo Choe, Fremont, CA (US);
Gayathrinath Nagarajan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed systems for multiple data center building optical communication may include (1) a first optical switching node of a first main point of entry (MPOE) of a first data center building that communicatively couples a first fiber pair of a first long-haul path to a computing system of the first building, (2) a second optical switching node of the first MPOE of the first building that communicatively couples a first fiber pair of a second long-haul path to the computing system of the first building, and (3) a third optical switching node of the first MPOE of the first building that communicatively couples the first and second optical switching nodes of the first MPOE of the first building to a second MPOE of the first building and a first MPOE of a second data center building. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.