High-speed optical transceiver for infiniband and ethernet

An optical transceiver, supporting Infiniband and/or Ethernet, the optical transceiver comprising:

• processing circuitry connected to one or more physical client interfaces for receiving client signals therefrom, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to selectively perform Infiniband or Ethernet control and processing on the client signals;
• and
• framing circuitry configured to selectively provide framing on an output from the processing circuitry;
• wherein the processing circuitry and the framing circuitry utilize mapping to superblocks and aggregation of superblocks.

An optical system, supporting Infiniband and/or Ethernet transmission, the optical system comprising:

• one or more client interfaces for Infiniband and/or Ethernet signals;
• a client interface module coupled to the one or more client interfaces, wherein the client interface module is configured to aggregate and process the Infiniband and/or Ethernet signals, frame the Infiniband and/or Ethernet signals, and output a single signal, and wherein the client interface module is configured to accept a single Infiniband and/or Ethernet signal at 100 Gb/s or multiple Infiniband and/or Ethernet signals for aggregation to 100 Gb/s;
• and
• an optical modulator coupled to the client interface module, wherein the optical modulator is configured to utilize the single signal to modulate an optical carrier for transmission of the Infiniband and/or Ethernet signals.

An optical method, supporting Infiniband and/or Ethernet transmission, the optical method comprising:

• receiving one or more Infiniband and/or Ethernet signals;
• aggregating the one or more Infiniband and/or Ethernet signals responsive to receiving two or more Infiniband and/or Ethernet signals;
• processing and framing the one or more Infiniband and/or Ethernet signals in a single signal;
• and
• modulating an optical carrier with the single signal.