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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2006

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2000
Applicant:

Christopher C. Ott, Briarcliff, TX (US);

Inventor:

Christopher C. Ott, Briarcliff, TX (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An optical line interface assembly for insertion in a slot of a communications equipment rack includes a board having serial interfaces formed to couple to optical interface modules. The interface assembly also includes optical interface modules removably coupled to the serial interfaces to permit replacement of selected optical interface modules while the remaining optical interface modules remain coupled to optical signal lines.


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