Patent ID: 7672590

Claim:
A method of mobilizing multiple data processing devices within a data center where the multiple data processing devices are connected to a shared central interface by which to communicate with each other and with a central communication service, comprising: dividing the multiple data processing devices into multiple groups with each group having multiple data processing devices; locating the multiple data processing devices of each group in a separate mobile data cabinet; including an access switch and a multiplicity of computing devices in the multiple data processing devices in each group in each mobile data cabinet; connecting the computing devices in each mobile data cabinet to the access switch; including an optical interface as part of the data processing devices in each mobile data cabinet; connecting the access switch to each optical interface within each mobile data cabinet; connecting the optical interface of each mobile data cabinet to the shared central interface with a main optical cable within the data center by mating two complementary optical connectors, one of which is attached to the optical interface of each mobile data cabinet and the other of which is attached to each main optical cable; communicating data between data processing devices in each mobile data cabinet through the access switch in the mobile data cabinet; communicating data between the shared central interface and the data processing devices in each mobile data cabinet through the main optical cable connected to each mobile data cabinet and the access switch and optical interface of each mobile data cabinet; and thereafter in the following recited sequence: disconnecting the complementary optical connector of one main optical cable extending from the shared central interface to one mobile data cabinet from the complementary optical connector of the optical interface of the one mobile data cabinet; moving the one mobile data cabinet from an initial location within the data center to a subsequent location which is physically displaced from the initial location within the data center; and reconnecting the complementary optical connector of the optical interface of the one mobile data cabinet with a substantially identical complementary optical connector of another main communication cable extending from the shared central interface to the subsequent location within the data center where the one mobile data cabinet is moved.