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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2015
The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (US);
The Trustees of Columbia University IN the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Daniel Kilper, Tucson, AZ (US);
Keren Bergman, New York, NY (US);
Gil Zussman, New York, NY (US);
Berk Birand, New York, NY (US);
THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Tucson, AZ (US);
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An optical communication system includes a plurality of optical system nodes, a plurality of optical space switches and a plurality of optical fibers. The plurality of optical system nodes each includes at least one reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM). The optical system nodes each have at least one client side port and at least one line side port. Each optical space switch is operatively coupled to the line side port of one of the plurality of optical system nodes. Each of the optical fibers couples one of the optical space switches to another of the optical space switches.