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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2024
Calix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Michael T. Rollins, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Calix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Automatically configuring a pluggable module installed in an Ethernet system by probing the module using an interface protocol to identify a type and data transfer rate of the module and determine whether or not the type and data transfer rate are correct for a Ethernet data layer and physical (PHY) layer device of the system. If so, the automated process enables the PHY interface through a control bus coupled to a host CPU to operate the module at a desired data transfer rate, otherwise it reconfigures the PHY to a type determined through the probing step, or sets the PHY data transfer rate to the data transfer rate determined by the probing step. This improves present methods where an operator must identify the type/rate of the device installed in a switch and then manually configure the port to the correct rate, which is an inherently error prone process.