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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. 04, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2001
Richard Lauder, Maroubra, AU;
Ross Halgren, Collaroy Plateau, AU;
Other;
Abstract
An optical network element comprising a plurality of subscriber line connections, a WDM unit having a plurality of WDM channel connections, a plurality of subscriber line interface cards and a plurality of trunk line interface cards for optical interfacing between the subscriber line connections and the WDM channel connections, and a switch arranged, in use, in a manner such as to be capable of switching transmission directions between the WDM channel connections and individual ones of the subscriber line connections by suitable switching of an optical path configuration between transmitter ports and receiver ports of the subscriber line interface cards and the WDM channel connections.
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