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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2009
David Aaron Skirmont, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Daniel Kiernan Kilkenny, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Surya Parkash Varanasi, Dublin, CA (US);
Kung-ling Ko, Union City, CA (US);
David Aaron Skirmont, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Daniel Kiernan Kilkenny, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Surya Parkash Varanasi, Dublin, CA (US);
Kung-Ling Ko, Union City, CA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Pluggable transceiver modules with additional functions and circuitry contained within the module. In a first embodiment, additional circuitry is added to determine bit error rates at the point of the module itself. This allows a much better diagnostic evaluation of location of problem. In an alternate embodiment, various logic is placed in the module. In a first alternate embodiment encryption/decryption units are placed in the converter module so that encryption and decryption operations on the serial bitstream do not need to be performed in a switch. Existing switches can be used but the interconnecting links can still be encrypted. A second alternate embodiment includes compression/decompression units placed in the module to allow effective higher throughput on the selected links.