Patent ID: 8705973
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A method for an optical transceiver to log operational data, the method comprising the following: an act of the optical transceiver identifying first operational information regarding the optical transceiver, the optical transceiver having a transmitter and a receiver that are coupled to a host computing system via a first host communication interface, the optical transceiver also coupled to the host computing system via a second host communication interface that is separate from the first host communication interface; after the act of identifying the first operational information, an act of the optical transceiver writing redundant copies of first log information representing the first operational information to a persistent memory of the optical transceiver and to a memory within the host computing system via the second host communication interface; an act of the optical transceiver identifying second operational information regarding the optical transceiver; and after the act of identifying the second operational information, an act of the optical transceiver writing redundant copies of second log information representing the second operational information to the persistent memory of the optical transceiver and to the memory within the host computing system via the second host communication interface, wherein the method is performed by a control module within the optical transceiver, and the control module and the persistent memory are integrated on the same chip.