公开(公告)号：EP3275143A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-31

申请号：EP16767564.4

申请日：2016-03-23

Applicant: Aeponyx Inc.

Inventor： MENARD, Francois ,  BÉRARD, Martin ,  BRIERE, Jonathan

IPC: H04L12/931 ,  H04B10/80 ,  H04J14/02 ,  H04Q11/02

Abstract: Data center interconnections, which encompass WSCs as well as traditional data centers, have become both a bottleneck and a cost/power issue for cloud computing providers, cloud service providers and the users of the cloud generally. Fiber optic technologies already play critical roles in data center operations and will increasingly in the future. The goal is to move data as fast as possible with the lowest latency with the lowest cost and the smallest space consumption on the server blade and throughout the network. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for new fiber optic interconnection architectures to address the traditional hierarchal time-division multiplexed (TDM) routing and interconnection and provide reduced latency, increased flexibility, lower cost, lower power consumption, and provide interconnections exploiting scalable optical modular optically switched interconnection network as well as temporospatial switching fabrics allowing switching speeds below the slowest switching element within the switching fabric.

公开(公告)号：EP3275143B1

公开(公告)日：2019-12-11

申请号：EP16767564.4

申请日：2016-03-23

Applicant: Aeponyx Inc.

Inventor： MENARD, Francois ,  BÉRARD, Martin ,  BRIERE, Jonathan

IPC: H04Q11/00

公开(公告)号：EP3114511A1

公开(公告)日：2017-01-11

申请号：EP15758740.3

申请日：2015-03-09

Applicant: Aeponyx Inc.

Inventor： MENARD, Francois ,  MÉNARD, Michaël ,  NABKI, Fréderic ,  BÉRARD, Martin

IPC: G02B6/12 ,  B81B5/00 ,  G02B26/08 ,  G02B6/125 ,  H04J14/02

CPC classification number: G02B6/3518 ,  G02B6/12002 ,  G02B6/12007 ,  G02B6/124 ,  G02B6/357 ,  G02B6/3596 ,  G02B26/0841 ,  G02B2006/12147 ,  H01S5/021 ,  H01S5/02216 ,  H01S5/02248 ,  H01S5/12 ,  H01S5/141

Abstract: Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) has enabled telecommunication service providers to fully exploit the transmission capacity of optical fibers. State of the art systems in long-haul networks now have aggregated capacities of terabits per second. Moreover, by providing multiple independent multi-gigabit channels, WDM technologies offer service providers with a straight forward way to build networks and expand networks to support multiple clients with different requirements. In order to reduce costs, enhance network flexibility, reduce spares, and provide re-configurability many service providers have migrated away from fixed wavelength transmitters, receivers, and transceivers, to wavelength tunable transmitters, receivers, and transceivers as well as wavelength dependent add-drop multiplexer, space switches etc. However, to meet the competing demands for improved performance, increased integration, reduced footprint, reduced power consumption, increased flexibility, re-configurability, and lower cost it is desirable to exploit/adopt are monolithic optical circuit technologies, hybrid optoelectronic integration, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

Abstract translation: 波分复用（WDM）使得电信服务提供商能够充分利用光纤的传输能力。 长距离网络中最先进的系统现在具有每秒吞吐能力的综合能力。 此外，通过提供多个独立的多吉比特信道，WDM技术为服务提供商提供了直接建立网络和扩展网络的方式，以支持具有不同需求的多个客户端。 为了降低成本，增强网络灵活性，减少备件，并提供许多服务提供商已经从固定波长发射器，接收器和收发器迁移到波长可调发射器，接收器和收发器以及波长依赖的附加功能的可重新配置， 然而，为了满足改善性能，增加集成度，减少占地面积，降低功耗，增加灵活性，可重新配置性和降低成本的竞争需求，所以开发/采用的是单片光电路技术 ，混合光电集成和微机电系统（MEMS）。