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US 2014/0369653 A1Published application
Optical plenum
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsKevin B. Leigh, George D Megason, David W. Sherrod
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Abstract
In the present idsclosure inter-rack optical plenum may be used to route optical fibers between multiple racks of a system. An intra-rack optical plenum may be coupled to one of the racks and the inter-rack optical plenum. The intra-rack optical plenum may route an optical fiber between a first connector configured to mate with a first device and a second connector conifugred to mate with the inter-rack optical plenum.
Claims15
A system, comprising:
- an inter-rack optical plenum to route a first optical fiber from a first rack to a second rack;
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- an intra-rack optical plenum coupled to the first rack, wherein the intra-rack optical plenum is to route a second optical fiber from a device connector to the inter-rack optical plenum to communicatively couple to the first optical fiber.
A system, comprising:
- a first rack including an electronic device, wherein the electronic device of the first rack is coupled to an optical fiber routed through a first intra-rack optical plenum;
- a second rack including an electronic device, wherein the electronic device of the second rack is coupled to an optical fiber routed through a second intra-rack optical plenum;
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- an inter-rack optical plenum coupled to the first rack and the second rack, wherein the inter-rack optical plenum includes an optical fiber to communicatively couple the optical fiber routed through the intra-rack optical plenum to the optical fiber routed through the second intra-rack optical plenum.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, by an intra-rack optical plenum of a first rack, a plurality of optical fibers wherein the intra-rack optical plenum aligns the plurality of optical fibers with an inter-rack optical plenum;
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- transmitting, via the plurality of optical fibers, communication from a first device coupled to the intra-rack optical plenum to a second device via optical fibers of the inter-rack optical plenum, wherein the second device coupled to a second rack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.