Patent ID: 8135282
Filing Date: 2012-03-13
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A transceiver module comprising: a housing; a printed circuit board at least partially enclosed in the housing; a transmitter optical subassembly enclosed in the housing and communicatively coupled to the printed circuit board for transmitting high-speed data; a receiver optical subassembly enclosed in the housing and communicatively coupled to the printed circuit board for receiving high-speed data; a controller enclosed in the housing that monitors the transmission and reception of the high-speed data over the transmitter optical subassembly and the receiver optical subassembly, wherein the controller collects status describing the transmission and reception of the high speed data and wherein the controller is configured to communicate transmission information to a user via at least one status indicator; and a status indicator assembly enclosed in the housing and communicatively coupled to the controller, wherein the controller conveys the status over the status indicator assembly such that the status is visible from outside the housing and capable of being understood by a human eye, and wherein the status indicator assembly includes an aperture configured to interface with the status indicator assembly, and wherein the aperture having formed ends in the shape of an arrow representing the existence and direction of data transmission.