Patent ID: 9735874
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: H04B

Claim:
1. A system to perform one or more service assurance and management functionalities in a network comprising: a small form factor pluggable (SFP) optical transceiver located at a network node, the SFP optical transceiver comprising an optical transmitter and an optical receiver; a programmable signal processing module coupled with the SFP optical transceiver; the SFP optical transceiver, the programmable signal processing module, a discoverer and a remote station coupled to the network; the SFP optical transceiver further comprising a power converter to power the programmable signal processing module; the discoverer discovering the programmable signal processing module in the network; the remote station programming the programmable signal processing module, after the programmable signal processing module is discovered without requiring changes to the software on the network node, to perform the one or more service assurance and management functionalities in the network; and the programmable signal processing module enabling the programming by the remote station by: