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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2003
Shiomo Ovadia, San Jose, CA (US);
Mario Paniccia, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kirk R. Hayden, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Shiomo Ovadia, San Jose, CA (US);
Mario Paniccia, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kirk R. Hayden, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A modular reconfigurable multi-server system with hybrid optical and electrical switching fabrics for high-speed networking within a wavelength-division-multiplexed based photonic burst-switched (PBS) network with variable time slot provisioning. An optical high-speed I/O module within the multi-server system includes an optical switch with the control interface unit. A server module of the multi-server system statistically multiplexes IP packets and/or Ethernet frames to be transmitted over the PBS network, generate control and data bursts and schedule their transmission. Then, the server E-O converts the bursts, and then transmits the optical bursts to the optical I/O module. The optical I/O module then optically transmits the bursts to the next hop in the optical path after processing the optical control burst to configure the optical switch, which then optically switches the optical data burst without performing an O-E-O conversion.