Patent ID: 7532820

Claim:
An optical transceiver comprising; an optical receiver configured to convert a received optical signal on at least one optical channel into a corresponding electrical signal; an optical transmitter configured to convert electrical signals into a corresponding optical signal; a driver circuit coupled to the optical transmitter and configured to provide said electrical signals to the optical transmitter; a controller integrated circuit in communication with the driver circuit; electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) circuitry in communication with the controller circuit and configured to perform the following when receiving the corresponding electrical signals from the optical receiver: an act of performing electronic dispersion compensation on the corresponding electrical signal received from the optical receiver; and an act of generating diagnostics information concerning the electronic dispersion compensation; and a communication mechanism configured to provide at least some of the diagnostics information generated by the EDC circuitry to a host interface, wherein the optical receiver, optical transmitter, driver circuit, EDC circuitry, and controller integrated circuit are integrated into the same transceiver housing.