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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2006
Hiroshi Shimizu, Musashino, JP;
Katsuya Ikezawa, Musashino, JP;
Akira Toyama, Musashino, JP;
Yasukazu Akasaka, Musashino, JP;
Kanji Tatsumi, Musashino, JP;
Chie Sato, Musashino, JP;
Hirotoshi Kodaka, Musashino, JP;
Tadashige Fujita, Musashino, JP;
Tsuyoshi Yakihara, Musashino, JP;
Daisuke Hayashi, Musashino, JP;
Masayuki Suehiro, Musashino, JP;
Shinji Iio, Musashino, JP;
Morio Wada, Musashino, JP;
Akira Miura, Musashino, JP;
Hiroshi Shimizu, Musashino, JP;
Katsuya Ikezawa, Musashino, JP;
Akira Toyama, Musashino, JP;
Yasukazu Akasaka, Musashino, JP;
Kanji Tatsumi, Musashino, JP;
Chie Sato, Musashino, JP;
Hirotoshi Kodaka, Musashino, JP;
Tadashige Fujita, Musashino, JP;
Tsuyoshi Yakihara, Musashino, JP;
Daisuke Hayashi, Musashino, JP;
Masayuki Suehiro, Musashino, JP;
Shinji Iio, Musashino, JP;
Morio Wada, Musashino, JP;
Akira Miura, Musashino, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a repeater including: a recognizing unit to recognize a destination address of an optical packet from the optical packet which includes the destination address assigned in unit of bit and a bit indicating whether or not a plurality of destination addresses are assigned; an optical splitting unit to split the optical packet into a plurality of optical packets; and selecting units to select transmission channels for the split optical packets on the basis of recognition results by the recognizing units, respectively.