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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2014
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Chunjie Duan, Brookline, MA (US);
Ghulam Bhatti, Mansfield, MA (US);
Kieran Parsons, Cambridge, MA (US);
Kazuumi Koguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Soichiro Kametani, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
An optical channel data unit (ODU) switch includes a set of two or more client cards, a set of two or more line cards, and a set of two or more switch cards. Each switch card is connected to all client cards, all line cards, and all other switch cards, and each client card, line card and switch card includes control logic for managing an operation of the ODU switch in a distributed manner.