Patent ID: 8873967

Claim:
An optical interconnection module for connecting to a media converter module, comprising: a transmitter connector having transmit ports PO T (i); a receiver connector having receive ports PO R (i); and transmit/receive ports PO F (i) that are optically connected to the transmit ports PO T (i) and the receive ports PO R (i) according to either: a) a first port configuration defined by: {PO F (i)} {PO T (i), PO R (13−i)} for i=1 to 12; or b) a second port configuration defined by: {PO F (i)} {PO T (12−i), PO R (i+1)} for i=1 to 12 odd (i.e., i=1, 3, 5, . . . 11); and {PO F (i)} {PO T (14−i), PO R (i−1)} for i=1 to 12 even (i.e., i=2, 4, 6, . . . 12).