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Article: California Inventors Develop Optical Network with Switching Nodes
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- September 6, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 6 -- Shlomo Ovadia of San Jose, Calif., and Christian Maciocco of Tigard, Calif., have developed an optical network.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical network, which includes edge and switching nodes, optically communicate information formatted into statistically multiplexed control and data bursts and/or metadata that are framed within wide area network interface sublayer frames for 10 gigabit per second Ethernet according to the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers 802 3ae Standard. Frames with control bursts are transmitted prior to frames with related data bursts to configure optical switches in selected switching ...