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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2013
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Ozdal Barkan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
A system including a first interface module, a second interface module, and a first physical layer device. The first interface module is configured to interface to a copper medium. The second interface module is configured to interface to a fiber-optic medium. The second interface module is configured to interface to the fiber-optic medium via a small form-factor pluggable (SFP) interface module. The first physical layer device is configured to detect when a link is being established over the copper medium via the first interface module and, in response to detecting that the link is established over the copper medium via the first interface module, to deactivate (i) the second interface module and (ii) the SFP interface module.