公开(公告)号：US20160057517A1

公开(公告)日：2016-02-25

申请号：US14832533

申请日：2015-08-21

Applicant: Coriant Advanced Technology, LLC

Inventor： Mariajose Coca ,  Chris R. Zettinger ,  Peter D. Magill ,  Michael J. Hochberg

IPC: H04Q11/00 ,  H04J14/02 ,  H04L12/933

CPC classification number: H04Q11/0005 ,  H04J14/02 ,  H04J14/06 ,  H04L49/109 ,  H04Q2011/0016 ,  H04Q2011/0018 ,  H04Q2011/0032 ,  H04Q2011/0035

Abstract: An architecture for a fiber optic communication system that uses only two levels of switches, Tier 1 and Tier 3, is described. The architecture allows one to omit the conventional Top of Rack switch level and the conventional Tier 2 switch level while maintaining performance and throughput. The cost to construct and install the improved switch architecture is lower than the cost of the conventional architecture. There are also described a number of transceivers that are suitable for use in the architecture disclosed. The transceivers employ silicon PIC chips that include high contrast silicon waveguides ion the chip and that connect to various configurations of optical fibers. The transceivers provide enhanced switching capacity with fewer devices.

Abstract translation: 描述了仅使用两个级别的交换机（Tier 1和Tier 3）的光纤通信系统的架构。 该架构允许在保持性能和吞吐量的同时省略传统的机架顶部开关级别和传统的二级开关级别。 构建和安装改进的交换机架构的成本低于常规架构的成本。 还描述了适用于所公开的架构的多个收发器。 收发器采用包括高对比度硅波导的硅PIC芯片，并将其连接到各种配置的光纤上。 收发器通过更少的设备提供增强的交换容量。