Multiple Fiber Block Transfer Switch
AssigneeTelescent Inc.
InventorAnthony Stephen Kewitsch
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Abstract
A fiber optic transfer switch to reconfigure multiple ganged ports in parallel, the fiber optic transfer switch comprising a pair of actuators; a first set of optical fibers which is translatable along longitudinal and transverse directions by the pair of actuators; and a second set of optical fibers and third set of optical fibers that are fixed, spaced apart and longitudinally opposing the first set of optical fibers, wherein the pair of actuators are constructed and adapted to alternately connect the first set of optical fibers to either (i) the second set of optical fibers or (ii) the third set of optical fibers.
Claims20
A fiber optic transfer switch to reconfigure multiple ganged ports in parallel, the fiber optic transfer switch comprising:
- a pair of actuators;
- a first set of optical fibers which is translatable along longitudinal and transverse directions by the pair of actuators;
- and
- a second set of optical fibers and a third set of optical fibers that are fixed, spaced apart, and longitudinally opposing the first set of optical fibers,
- wherein the pair of actuators are constructed and adapted to alternately connect the first set of optical fibers to either (i) the second set of optical fibers or (ii) the third set of optical fibers.
A method comprising:
- (A) providing a fiber optic transfer switch comprising:
- a pair of actuators, being a first actuator and a second actuator;
- a first set of optical fibers which is translatable along longitudinal and transverse directions by the pair of actuators;
- and
- a second set of optical fibers and a third set of optical fibers that are fixed, spaced apart, and longitudinally opposing the first set of optical fibers,
- wherein the pair of actuators are constructed and adapted to alternately connect the first set of optical fibers to either (I) the second set of optical fibers or (ii) the third set of optical fibers;
- (B) the first actuator disconnecting the first set of optical fibers from the second set of optical fibers;
- and then
- (C) the second actuator moving the first set of optical fibers from transverse alignment with the second set of optical fibers to transverse alignment with the third set of optical fibers;
- and then
- (D) connecting the first set of optical fibers and the second set of optical fibers by moving the first actuator parallel to an axis of the optical fibers.
A system for execution of cross-connect reconfiguration batches, the system comprising:
- a mass fiber transfer switch comprising:
- a pair of actuators;
- a first set of optical fibers which is translatable along longitudinal and transverse directions by the pair of actuators;
- and
- a second set of optical fibers and a third set of optical fibers that are fixed, spaced apart, and longitudinally opposing the first set of optical fibers,
- wherein the pair of actuators are constructed and adapted to alternately connect the first set of optical fibers to either (i) the second set of optical fibers or (ii) the third set of optical fibers, wherein
- the system is configured to transfer sets of fiber pairs from a first automated cross-connect executing a current workflow to a second automated cross-connect pre-configured and staged to execute a second workflow once switched by the mass fiber transfer switch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.