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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2014
Commscope Technologies Llc, Hickory, NC (US);
Joseph C. Coffey, Burnsville, MN (US);
Paul John Pepe, Clemmons, NC (US);
Joseph Polland, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
CommScope Technologies LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Abstract
A pluggable active optical module (AOM) having an electrical connector at a first end and one or more optical adapters at a second end is disclosed. The AOM includes a storage device interface at the second end, and a programmable processor coupled to the storage device interface and one or more first contacts of the electrical connector. The programmable processor is configured to access a storage device in one or more optical fibers through the storage device interface and provide physical layer management (PLM) information obtained therefrom to a host device connected to the electrical connector. The AOM also includes a switch coupled between a second contact of the electrical connector and ground, the switch coupled to the programmable processor such that that programmable processor can control the switch to selectively connect a second contact of the electrical connector to ground.