Patent ID: 9515740
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G02B,H04B,H04J

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus comprising: an electrical interface for receiving a predetermined bandwidth of Ethernet traffic; a Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP) optical interface configured to provide a bi-directional 80 Gbps bandwidth over a plurality of optical fibers; a modem configured to allocate the received predetermined bandwidth of Ethernet traffic into first and second optical portions; a first optical transceiver configured to transmit, via the QSFP optical interface, the first optical portion of Ethernet traffic over a first optical fiber at a first wavelength and over a second optical fiber at a second wavelength; and a second optical transceiver configured to transmit, via the QSFP optical interface, the second optical portion of the Ethernet traffic over a third optical fiber at a third wavelength and over a fourth optical fiber at a fourth wavelength.