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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2013
Applicant:
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Yasuhiro Tanaka, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroto Ishibashi, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/40 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/40 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods to load control programs into an optical transceiver whose specifications follow the standards are disclosed. The standard transceiver, such as SFP transceiver and/or XFP transceiver, provides control terminals in addition to the serial interface to communicate with the host device. The control terminals are inactive when the transceiver is output of the host device. The loader to load the program utilizes those control terminals and the optical transceiver of the invention provides mechanisms to use those control terminals for downloading the program.