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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2018
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Stephen Gregory Grubb, Atherton, CA (US);
Timothy Edward Stuch, Livermore, CA (US);
Andrew James Palmer-Felgate, Chichester, GB;
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01B 7/14 (2006.01); H04B 10/079 (2013.01); G02B 6/44 (2006.01); H04B 10/80 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/07955 (2013.01); G02B 6/4427 (2013.01); H01B 7/14 (2013.01); H04B 10/0793 (2013.01); H04B 10/808 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system comprises a trunk submarine cable, an offshore optical and power switching unit connected to the trunk submarine cable, and a plurality of feeder submarine cables connected to the offshore switching unit. The offshore switching unit is configured to dynamically connect data communication channels of a selected feeder submarine cable among the plurality of feeder submarine cables with data communication channels of the trunk submarine cable and to reconfigure power in the case of power faults.