OPTOELECTRONIC SWITCH
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Abstract
A switch module and optoelectronic switch incorporating the same. The optoelectronic switch includes an N-dimensional array of switch modules arranged in a topology in which each switch module is a member of N sub-arrays, the sub-arrays defined with reference to the coordinates of the constituent switch modules, and wherein all of the members of each sub-array are connected by an active switch, which in some embodiments may be an optical active switch or an electronic active switch.
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48 Claims
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25. A switch module, for use in an optoelectronic switch, the switch module having:
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a client portion for connecting to an input device or an output device; and a first fabric portion having a transmission side and a receiving side, the transmission side having; a transmission side input; a transmission side packet processor configured to receive, at the transmission side input, a first electronic signal, and to produce, at a plurality of outputs of the transmission side packet processor, a plurality of respective first electronic component signals; a plurality of transmission side electrical to optical converters for converting each of the first electronic component signals into a respective optical signal of a first plurality of optical signals; a transmission side multiplexer for converting the first plurality of optical signals into a multiplexed fabric output signal, and the receiving side having; a receiving side demultiplexer for receiving a multiplexed fabric input signal and separating said multiplexed fabric input signal into a second plurality of optical signals; a plurality of receiving side optical to electrical converters for converting each of the second plurality of optical signals into a respective second electronic component signal of a plurality of respective second electronic component signals; a receiving side output; and a receiving side packet processor configured to receive, at respective inputs of the receiving side packet processor, the second electronic component signals, and to transmit, at the receiving side output, a second electronic signal. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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