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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
May. 23, 2019
Applicant:
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kevan Peter Jones, Kanata, CA;
Assignee:
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/02 (2006.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/029 (2013.01); H04J 14/0204 (2013.01); H04J 14/0212 (2013.01); H04J 14/0216 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0062 (2013.01); H04J 14/02 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus includes a tail-end optical switch configured to be coupled to a broadcast star network that couples the tail-end optical switch to a head-end optical switch by a primary bidirectional optical path and a second bidirectional optical path. The tail-end optical switch having a first optical switch and a second optical switch configured to provide active switching.