Patent ID: 7995927

Claim:
A protocol agnostic transceiver module, comprising: a serial electrical interface with an electrical output port and an electrical input port; a receive path comprising: an optical input port adapted to receive a first optical signal from external to the transceiver module; an optoelectronic transducer configured to convert the first optical signal to a first serial electrical data stream; a data rate detector configured to identify a rate of data in the first serial electrical data stream; a receiver eye opener including a first port coupled to receive the first serial electrical data stream, the receiver eye opener being adapted to retime and reshape the first serial electrical data stream based on the data rate identified by the data rate detector; and the electrical output port of the serial electrical interface adapted to transmit the retimed and reshaped first serial electrical data stream to external to the transceiver module; and a transmit path comprising: an electrical input port of the serial electrical interface adapted to receive a second serial electrical data stream from external to the transceiver module; a transmitter eye opener including a first port coupled to receive the second serial electrical data stream, the transmitter eye opener being adapted to retime and reshape the second serial electrical data stream; and an optical output port adapted to transmit a second optical signal to external to the transceiver module, the second optical signal based on the retimed and reshaped second serial electrical data stream.