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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
May. 21, 2013
Applicant:
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Scott G. Kipp, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/00 (2006.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/00 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0005 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a number of multi-channel optical transceivers mounted on the PCB, and a number of switch ports accessible from a front panel of the switch. The switch ports include a number of electrical interfaces that are electrically coupled to a switch chip mounted on the PCB, and a number of optical interfaces that are coupled to the switch chip via the multi-channel optical transceivers.