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Stefan Hunsche0
Narayan Raman0
Ramesh Nagarajan0
Srinivasa Prasanna0
Bharat Tarachand Doshi0
Meenakshi Sharma0
Date of Patent
November 17, 2009
0Patent Application Number
100739310
Date Filed
February 14, 2002
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
A technique for improving optical cross-connections comprises placing a switch in front of a number of processing units. So configured, the units are no longer dedicated to a specific link or signal. When necessary, a unit is connected/disconnected to one or more optical links by the switch to carry out any number of processing functions, such as regeneration, Raman pumping, dispersion equalization/compensation or performance monitoring. Because the units are no longer dedicated to specific links the cost of the cross-connections and the network it is a part of can be reduced.
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