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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2021
Applicant:
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, KY;
Inventor:
Chongjin Xie, Morganville, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, KY;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/00 (2006.01); H04B 10/572 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/572 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment described herein provides a network switch. The network switch can include a co-packaged optics (CPO) assembly comprising a switch integrated circuit (IC) module and a number of optical modules coupled to the switch IC module, a remote laser source external to the CPO assembly configured to provide continuous wave (CW) light to the optical modules, a number of wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer arrays external to the CPO assembly, and a plurality of connector arrays comprising a first number of far reach (FR) connector arrays and a second number of datacenter reach (DR) connector arrays.