Patent ID: 7796892

Claim:
An optical transceiver module comprising: a transceiver module controller, the controller generating one or more signals including at least a light source driver control signal; a light source driver, the driver receiving a data signal at an input terminal of the driver, the driver receiving the driver control signal at a control signal terminal of the driver, the driver producing a modulation signal that is output at an output terminal of the driver; a light source, the light source receiving the modulation signal from the driver and producing an optical data signal for transmission over an optical transmit waveguide; a receiver, the receiver receiving an optical data signal carried on an optical receive waveguide and converting the optical data signal into an electrical data signal and sending the electrical data signal to an output terminal of the receiver; a wireless communications device, wherein the wireless communications device is configured to perform one or more tasks of: transmitting wireless signals from the transceiver module, receiving wireless signals in the transceiver module, and transmitting wireless signals from and receiving wireless signals in the transceiver module; and a switching device coupled to the input terminal of the driver and coupled to the output terminal of the receiver, the switching device being coupled to the wireless communications device and a wired network, the switching device selectively routing data signals for the input terminal and from the output terminal among the wireless communications device and the wired network in response to control signals received from the transceiver module controller.