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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
John A Fee, Plano, TX (US);
Shoa-Kai Liu, Richardson, TX (US);
Andrew Niall Robinson, Plano, TX (US);
Reddy Urimindi, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
MCI Corporation, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ; H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359163 ; 359118 ; 359139 ; 359128 ; 370360 ;
Abstract
An optical interface device dynamically reconfigures a telecommunications network. The device includes an optically switched backplane connected between two stages of an optical tapped amplifier. Various modules may be plugged into the backplane for performing selective processing of the optical signal without any signal conversion to electrical domain. The modules are electrically controlled by a controller, which is also a module, overseeing the operations upon the optical signal by other modules.