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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 20, 2012
Applicants:

Richard A. Barry, Los Angeles, CA (US);

David J. Husak, Windham, NH (US);

Derek E. Spock, Boston, MA (US);

Matthew William Morgan, Antrim, NH (US);

Peter B. Everdell, Littleton, MA (US);

Ruoding LI, Carlisle, MA (US);

Inventors:

Richard A. Barry, Los Angeles, CA (US);

David J. Husak, Windham, NH (US);

Derek E. Spock, Boston, MA (US);

Matthew William Morgan, Antrim, NH (US);

Peter B. Everdell, Littleton, MA (US);

Ruoding Li, Carlisle, MA (US);

Assignee:

PLEXXI INC., Nashua, NH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/00 (2006.01); H04B 10/20 (2006.01); H04J 14/02 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/00 (2013.01); H04J 14/0206 (2013.01); H04J 14/021 (2013.01); H04J 14/0213 (2013.01); H04J 14/0217 (2013.01); H04J 14/0238 (2013.01); H04J 14/0269 (2013.01); H04J 14/0275 (2013.01); H04J 14/0283 (2013.01); H04J 14/0228 (2013.01);
Abstract

Data center network architectures, systems, and methods that can reduce the cost and complexity of data center networks. Such data center network architectures, systems, and methods employ physical optical ring network and multi-dimensional network topologies and optical nodes to efficiently allocate bandwidth within the data center networks, while reducing the physical interconnectivity requirements of the data center networks. The respective optical nodes can be configured to provide various switching topologies, including, but not limited to, chordal ring switching topologies and multi-dimensional chordal ring switching topologies.


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