Patent ID: 8798458
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A transceiver device interfacing with a computing device, the transceiver device comprising: an optical port coupled to a single optical fiber; a wavelength coupler optically coupled to the optical port and configured to filter received optical signals having a first wavelength from received optical signals having a second wavelength; a transmitter optically coupled to the optical port via the wavelength coupler and configured to transmit optical signals having all the first wavelength by way of the wavelength coupler and the single optical fiber; a receiver optically coupled to the optical port via the wavelength coupler and configured to receive optical signals having all the second wavelength by way of the single optical fiber and to convert the optical signals having the second wavelength into digital signals for use by the computing device; an invalid signal splitter optically coupled between the wavelength coupler and the transmitter and configured to redirect an optical signal received from the single optical fiber and having a wavelength different than the second wavelength; and an invalid signal detector optically coupled to an output of the invalid signal splitter and configured to receive from the invalid signal splitter the optical signal having all the wavelength different than the second wavelength and to prevent the optical signal having the wavelength different than the second wavelength from being converted into digital signals for use by the computing device; and a link status indicator communicatively coupled to the transmitter, the receiver, and the invalid signal detector and configured to provide one or more visual indications including