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WDM optical network with passive pass-through at each node

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  • US 6,493,117 B1
  • Filed: 11/19/1999
  • Issued: 12/10/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/27/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A communications network employing wavelength division multiplexing comprising:

  • a plurality of nodes;

    an optical transmission medium interconnecting said nodes in a bi-directional ring configuration; and

    an interface at each node for receiving an input multi-band optical signal, dropping a drop band associated with said node, passively forwarding other bands, and combining an add band carrying traffic for another node with said other bands to provide an output multi-band optical signal, wherein each band comprises a plurality of optical signals travelling over corresponding transmission channels at distinct wavelengths, and wherein each band is shared between a pair of nodes in said network such that bi-directional communications may be established between each said pair of nodes without the active intervention of any intervening nodes.

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