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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2014
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Joseph K. Kakande, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
We disclose a communication system in which a cluster of network nodes is interconnected using an optical interconnect and an electrical switch engine. A bidirectional communication channel between any two of the network nodes can be set up using two bidirectional optical links established through the optical interconnect and one bidirectional electrical link configured to connect the ends of the two bidirectional optical links through the switch engine. The optical interconnect has a structure that enables the communication system to be (re)configurable for a desired level of oversubscription. Some embodiments of the communication system can advantageously be used in a data-center network.