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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:
Aug. 26, 2003
Filed:
May. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kumar Chinnaswamy, Westminster, MA (US);
Paul H. Dormitzer, Acton, MA (US);
Assignee:
ADC Broadband Access Systems, Inc., Westborough, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/228 ; H04L 1/250 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/228 ; H04L 1/250 ;
Abstract
A meshed backplane has dedicated pairs of connections for high-speed serial connection in each direction between each of multiple application modules and each other application module. A management/control bus is provided for out-of-band signaling. The mesh of serial differential pairs may be used for management/control bus signals when necessary. A time division multiplexing fabric is also provided for telephony applications. A star interconnect region is provided for distribution of signals from redundant clocks.