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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:
Oct. 17, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert I MacDonald, Manotick, CA;
Assignee:
JDS Fitel Inc., Ottawa, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385 16 ; 385 17 ; 385 18 ; 385 20 ;
Abstract
An optical switching system particularly useful in optical networks where waveguides are required from one node to several others, to provide multiple paths in the event of an outage on a particular waveguide is provided. The switching system is a one sided switch having p ports and allows any of the p ports to be connected with any other of the p-1 ports.