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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2008
Filed:
May. 22, 2007
Tom Mader, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Christine Krause, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Hengju Cheng, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jamyuen Ko, Irvine, CA (US);
Tom Mader, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Christine Krause, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Hengju Cheng, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jamyuen Ko, Irvine, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a backplane includes one or more optical links and is capable of receiving one or more circuit cards. Optical signals sent via the optical links may at least partially travel in a free space region between optical elements of the circuit cards and the optical links. Optical signals may also traverse the free space between optical links in the absence of a circuit card wherein the optical signal may travel to one or more other circuit cards on the backplane. As a result, in one or more embodiments a network between one or more of the circuit cards on the backplane may be automatically configured even in the absence of one or more circuit cards from the backplane.