CPC Class H04J

Methods and systems for transferring two clock signals over a single conductor are disclosed. According to various disclosed embodiments, first and second input clock signals are generated at a first module. The rising and falling edges of a generated reference clock signal are used to transfer the two clock signals from the first module to a second module over the single conductor.

Disclosed is an electrical transceiver for synchronous Ethernet, including: a first interface connected with a host; a second interface including a physical layer (PHY) transceiver connected with a serial link; and a processor connected with the first interface and the second interface, wherein the processor includes a timing control unit controlling a transmission signal transmitted to the second interface from the first interface and a reception signal transmitted to the first interface from the second interface to have the same time delay.

The present disclosure provides an optical transceiver, method of mapping, and method of management utilizing a plurality of Optical Channel Transport Unit layer k (OTUk) links to form an aggregate signal, such as, for example, 10 OTU2s to provide a single 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100 GbE) signal. Specifically, the present invention enables use of existing circuitry and methods at lower speed signals, e.g. 10 G, to support higher speed aggregate signals, e.g. 100 G. The present invention may be utilized to support carrier-grade OTN applications with optical transceivers such as, for example, pluggable optical transceivers. In an exemplary embodiment, the present invention includes a method which receives a plurality of signals, frames each of the plurality of signals into an OTUk frame, and manages/monitors each of the plurality of signals in an OTUk frame in the aggregate.

A transmission device includes: a plurality of detectors configured to respectively detect alarms of a plurality of frame signals having divided client signals respectively; a memory configured to store group information indicating a group in which the client signal is in common regarding the plurality of frame signals; a specifying portion configured to specify, based on the group information, a second frame signal storing the client signal in common with a first frame signal in which a first alarm is detected by one of the plurality of detectors among the plurality of frame signals; and one or more generators configured to generate a second alarm for the second frame signal.

A system and method for performing an in-service optical time domain reflectometry test, an in-service insertion loss test, and an in-service optical frequency domain reflectometry test using a same wavelength as the network communications for point-to-point or point-to-multipoint optical fiber networks while maintaining continuity of network communications are disclosed.