Patent ID: 8223795

Claim:
An optical communication system, comprising: a first optical signal transceiver; a second optical signal transceiver, wherein the first optical signal transceiver is configured to be communicatively coupled to the second optical signal transceiver via a plurality of optical transport systems arranged serially between the first optical signal transceiver and the second optical signal transceiver; and one or more optical signal regenerators each connected between two of the plurality of optical transport systems, wherein a first optical signal regenerator of the one or more optical signal regenerators is configured to: receive an optical signal in a LAN format from the first optical signal transceiver, convert the received optical signal in the LAN format to an electrical signal in the LAN format, recover corrupted data in the electrical signal using forward error correction data in the electrical signal in the LAN format, add new forward error correction data to the recovered electrical signal in the LAN format, regenerate the optical signal in the LAN format based on the electrical signal in the LAN format containing the new forward error correction data, and transmit the regenerated optical signal in the LAN format to the second optical signal transceiver.