Patent ID: 8903247

Claim:
A system, comprising: a first bidirectional interface connected via multimode optical fiber to a second bidirectional interface, wherein the multimode optical fiber is selected from OM3 and OM4, and wherein the multimode optical fiber has a length between 220 m and 300 m; the first bidirectional interface comprising: a first receive/transmit optical fiber port; a first wavelength separating module in communication with the receive/transmit optical fiber port; a first optical receiver module in communication with the first wavelength separating module and configured to receive optical signals at a first wavelength via the first wavelength separating module and the first receive/transmit optical fiber port, wherein the first wavelength is in a range from 840 nm to 860 nm; and a first optical transmit module in communication with the first wavelength separating module and configured to transmit at a second wavelength via the first wavelength separating module and the first receive/transmit optical fiber port, wherein the second wavelength is in a range from 1260 nm to 1355 nm; and first electronic dispersion compensation circuitry connected to the first optical receiver module, the second bidirectional interface comprising: a second receive/transmit optical fiber port; a second wavelength separating module in communication with the second receive/transmit optical fiber port; a second optical receiver module in communication with the second wavelength separating module and configured to receive optical signals at the second wavelength via the second wavelength separating module and the second receive/transmit optical fiber port; and a second optical transmit module in communication with the second wavelength separating module and configured to transmit at the first wavelength via the second wavelength separating module and the second receive/transmit optical fiber port, and wherein, in operation, bidirectional optical communication is established over the multimode optical fiber at at least 10 Gbit/s and facilitated by the electronic dispersion compensation circuitry; and wherein the first bidirectional interface and the second bidirectional interface are each configured within a small form factor pluggable (SFP) format transceiver.