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Method of recovering from a fiber-cable cut using random splicing reconnection

  • US 5,708,753 A
  • Filed: 09/24/1996
  • Issued: 01/13/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/24/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of reconnecting a severed cable having a first and a second cable sections including a first plurality of optical fibers, the first cable section providing a connection to a group of first units at a first location, the second cable section providing a connection to a group of second units, the method comprising the steps of:

  • A) randomly reconnecting each of the severed fibers of the first cable section to each of the severed fibers of the second cable section;

    B) after the reconnection, determining which fiber interconnects each of the first units to each of the second units and establishing a reconnection database describing such interconnections; and

    C) using an established original database which specifies original interconnections between the first units and the second units together with the reconnection database, controlling the switching of connections of one or more inputs to the first units so that the resulting connections established between said inputs and the second units are the same as the connections specified by the original database.

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