Patent ID: 7680413

Claim:
A system, comprising: a monitoring assembly; and an optical diverter assembly coupled to the monitoring assembly, the diverter assembly for receiving optical transmission information and producing therefrom diverted and non-diverted transmission information portions, the diverter assembly comprising: an optical assembly input; an optical assembly output; an electrical assembly output; an optical receiver including a receiver input and a receiver output; an optical splitter including a splitter input coupled to the optical assembly input, a first splitter output coupled to the optical receiver input and a second splitter output coupled to the optical assembly output, wherein the optical splitter is generally matched to the optical receiver for reducing signal loss at an optical splitter to optical receiver interface, wherein the monitoring assembly determines whether the diverted transmission information includes content criteria for designating particular transmission information to monitor in conjunction with other monitoring, and wherein the monitoring assembly is operable to modify at least one of a diverter frequency and a diverter state parameter; and a re-transmitter, wherein the re-transmitter raises a signal level of the non-diverted transmission information portion and outputs the non-diverted transmission portion.