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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2007
Applicant:
Rong C. Fang, Oak Hill, VA (US);
Inventor:
Rong C. Fang, Oak Hill, VA (US);
Assignee:
Tellas Operations, Inc., Naperville, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/08 (2006.01); H04B 17/00 (2006.01); H04B 10/12 (2006.01); H04J 14/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A single, normally inactive, protection channel provides protection against transponder failure in a fiber optic ring network. The protection channel is established and put into operation by a series of steps that are triggered by the detection of loss of light from one transponder by the other transponder. Each node reacts to a loss of light from another node in the same way: by rerouting incoming traffic from external sources from a working input-output interface to a protection interface, to establish a path for the protection signal, and by sending a signal enabling the two nodes to resume communication.