Patent ID: 7486889

Claim:
A transceiver test module comprising: a cage configured to support an optical transceiver, said cage having a plug interface configured to interface with an external plug input/output interface of an optical transceiver, and to provide a power connection to said optical transceiver; an optical wrap comprising a single length of optical fiber cabling and connectors configured to directly interconnect the optical transmitter and optical receiver of said optical transceiver and feed back at least an optical transmission of said optical transmitter to said optical receiver, both of said optical transceiver; and a processor system configured to interrogate said optical transceiver via said plug interface of said cage; configured to read information from said optical transceiver via said plug interface; configured to parse speed and diagnostic information from said read information of said plug interface; configured to provide a signal to said plug interface to operate said optical transceiver to transmit a signal at said optical transmitter to be fed back to and received at said optical receiver via said optical wrap; configured to detect diagnostic information from said read information of said plug interface for errors of said optical transceiver; and configured to determine the rated speed of said optical transceiver from one of said parsed speed information, if available, and said diagnostic information detected from said read information of said plug interface.