Patent 8488938 was granted and assigned to Telescent Inc. on July, 2013 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
This invention discloses a highly scalable and modular automated optical cross connect switch comprised of large numbers of densely packed fiber strands suspended within a common volume. In particular, apparatus and methods enabling programmable interconnection of large numbers of optical fibers (100's-1000's) having structured and coherent braid representations are provided.