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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2008
Stephen J. West, Petaluma, CA (US);
Scott Pradels, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Stephen J. West, Petaluma, CA (US);
Scott Pradels, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Cyan, Inc., Petaluma, CA (US);
Abstract
A network element of a transport network has three fabrics housed within a single shelf of a telco rack, namely a packet fabric, an electrical fabric and an optical fabric. The shelf also includes inter-fabric circuitry, to bridge between the fabrics, e.g. packet-electrical and/or electrical-optical and/or packet-optical. The inter-fabric circuitries switchably transmit packets across fabrics in intermediate nodes of the transport network. The single shelf of some embodiments has a wall ('midplane') between a rear region that holds the three fabrics and a front region that holds inter-fabric circuitry, and external interfaces to optical trunks and/or packet services and/or optical tributaries.