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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 22, 2018
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nitin Kumar Goel, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sung Woo Choe, Fremont, CA (US);

Gayathrinath Nagarajan, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/26 (2006.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04B 10/278 (2013.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04J 14/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 11/0005 (2013.01); H04B 10/278 (2013.01); H04J 14/0267 (2013.01); H04L 12/2885 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0067 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0016 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0024 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0041 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0052 (2013.01);
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.


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