Patent ID: 8805195

Claim:
A high-speed optical transceiver for Infiniband and Ethernet, comprising: one or more physical client interfaces configured to receive client signals comprising one of Infiniband and Ethernet; processing circuitry connected to the one or more physical client interfaces for receiving the client signals, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to perform one of Infiniband and Ethernet control and processing on the client signals, and wherein the processing circuitry is selectively programmable to process Infiniband or Ethernet; framing circuitry receiving an output from the processing circuitry, wherein the framing circuitry is configured to provide framing on the output from the processing circuitry, and wherein the framing circuitry is selectively programmable to provide the framing for Infiniband or Ethernet; an optical demodulator providing a framed input to the framing circuitry, wherein the optical demodulator is configured to receive a first optical signal and to demodulate the first optical signal; and an optical modulator receiving a framed output from the framing circuitry, wherein the optical modulator is configured to modulate a second optical signal responsive to the framed output and to transmit the second optical signal; wherein the processing circuitry and the framing circuitry collectively are configured with a two stage GFP-T mapping process comprising mapping to superblocks and aggregation of superblocks.