Communication System Employing Optical Frame Templates
AssigneeNubis Communications, Inc.
InventorPeter Johannes Winzer
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Abstract
An optical communication system comprises an optical communication device and an optical power supply configured to generate a sequence of optical frame templates directed to the optical communication device. The optical communication device may use the received optical frame templates as a light source for generating data-loaded optical frames and/or may extract from the optical frame templates control information encoded therein using one or more headers thereof.
Claims16
An apparatus comprising:
- a light source;
- and
- an electronic controller connected to cause the light source to produce a sequence of optical frame templates, each of the optical frame templates comprising a respective frame header, and a respective frame body;
- wherein each frame body comprises a respective optical pulse train;
- and
- wherein the light source and the electronic controller are configured to imprint control information onto light of at least some of the optical frame templates using time intervals corresponding to the respective frame headers of the sequence.
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An apparatus comprising a control system configured to synchronize two or more network elements, the control system comprising:
- a first port configured to receive a first local time information from a first network element;
- a second port configured to receive a second local time information from a second network element;
- a processor configured to compute, from the first and second local time informations, one or more global time values;
- and
- a third port configured to transmit the one or more global time values to the first network element or to a third network element different from the first and second network elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.