Data transport system with an embedded communication channel
AssigneeADVA Optical Networking SE
InventorsHenning Hinderthuer, Marcus Sauter, Lars Friedrich
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Abstract
A network comprising at least one host device having an interface card connected to a backplane of said host device, wherein said interface card comprises at least one cage for receiving a pluggable module which provides at least one embedded communication channel which exchanges performance monitoring data and configuration data between said pluggable module and a far end device.
Claims26
A network comprising at least one host device having an interface card connected to a backplane of said host device,
- wherein said interface card comprises at least one cage for receiving a pluggable module which provides at least one embedded communication channel which exchanges performance monitoring data and configuration data between said pluggable module and a far end device by at least optical fibre.
A pluggable module adapted to be plugged into at least one cage of an interface card of a host device,
- wherein said pluggable module performs traffic management of data transported via an optical fibre connected to said pluggable module which provides at least one embedded communication channel which exchanges performance monitoring data and configuration data between said pluggable module and a far end device.
A method for bidirectional transport of data between host devices of a network via at least one optical fibre,
- wherein a pluggable module attachable to said optical fibre is connected to a corresponding cage of one of said host devices and a traffic management is performed during transport of the data by said pluggable module which provides at least one embedded communication channel which exchanges performance monitoring data and configuration data between said pluggable module and a far end device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.