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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2002
Larry L. Miles, Garland, TX (US);
Lakshman S. Tamil, Plano, TX (US);
Scott A. Rothrock, Plano, TX (US);
Nolan J. Posey, Jr., Allen, TX (US);
Gregory H. Aicklen, Richardson, TX (US);
Larry L. Miles, Garland, TX (US);
Lakshman S. Tamil, Plano, TX (US);
Scott A. Rothrock, Plano, TX (US);
Nolan J. Posey, Jr., Allen, TX (US);
Gregory H. Aicklen, Richardson, TX (US);
YT Networks Capital, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention includes a router comprising an ingress edge unit with one or more ports and an egress edge unit with one or more ports connected by a switch fabric. The ingress edge unit can receive optical data and convert the optical data into a plurality of micro lambdas. The ingress edge unit can convert the incoming data to micro lambdas by generating a series of short-term parallel data bursts across multiple wavelengths. The ingress edge unit can also wavelength division multiplex and time domain multiplex each micro lambda for transmission to the switch fabric in a particular order. The switch fabric can receive the plurality of micro lambdas and route the plurality of micro lambdas to the plurality of egress edge units in a non-blocking manner.