Patent ID: 8483565

Claim:
A data transport card comprising: an interface to receive high speed data streams from at least one client; and an opto-electronic module which converts said data streams into optical data signals and couples these optical data signals into at least one wavelength division multiplexing channel for transport of said optical data signals via an optical fibre, wherein said wavelength division multiplexing channel has a predetermined bandwidth and comprises a number of WDM subchannels corresponding to a number of received data streams; and wherein the opto-electronic module is configured for optimizing the bandwidth and spacing of the subchannels; and an electronic module, said electronic module comprising: a mapping and framing unit for mapping the data streams into ODU-data frames, a monitoring unit for monitoring data integrity, a FEC unit for performing a forward error correction of said ODU-data frames, and a deskewing unit for performing a deskewing of said data streams.