SMALL FORM FACTOR PLUGGABLE UNIT WITH SIGNAL MONITORING CAPABILITIES

• US 20130265887A1
• Filed: 04/05/2012
• Published: 10/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Embrionix Design Inc. (RIEDEL Communications GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: Renaud Lavoie
• Inventors: LAVOIE, Renaud, DUDEMAINE, Eric
• Application Number:
  US13/440,055
• Publication Number:
  US 20130265887A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/12 Network monitoring probes

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to small form factor pluggable units (SFP) having a monitoring probe. The monitoring probe is capable of monitoring a signal received by the SFP unit, in order to analyze the received signal and to generate a status signal. The monitoring probe may monitor a received signal directly or a copy thereof. The monitoring probe may be non-intrusive of the received signal, or intrusive. The monitoring probe may further generate a diagnostic of the received signal.

Claims

1. A small form-factor pluggable (SFP) unit comprising:

at least one input for receiving a signal;

a monitoring probe for monitoring the received signal and generating a corresponding status signal; and

at least one output for outputting the status signal.

2. The SFP unit of claim 1, wherein the at least one input comprises one of:

video and/or data signals.

3. The SFP unit of claim 1, wherein the monitoring probe is non-intrusive and operates on a copy of the received signal.

4. The SFP unit of claim 1, wherein the monitoring probe is intrusive and operates on the received signal.

5. The SFP unit of claim 4, wherein the monitoring probe further alters a content of the received signal;

the alteration comprising at least one of;

a modification of the content of the received signal, and a restoration of the content of the received signal.

6. The SFP unit of claim 1, wherein the status signal comprises at least one of:

audio quality parameter of the received signal, video quality parameter of the received signal, digital quality parameter of the received signal, integrity parameter of a content of the received signal.

7. The SFP unit of claim 1, wherein the monitoring probe further generates a diagnostic of the received signal.