Patent ID: 7957645

Claim:
A fiber optic interconnection system, comprising; a first optical network node that includes a first distribution component that encodes a first information signal from the first optical network node onto a first optical signal and a second optical signal, wherein the first optical signal and the second optical signal have different wavelength ranges; a first directional component for directing the first optical signal and the second optical signal having different wavelength ranges through one of a first or second interconnectivity components; and a second optical network node that includes a second distribution component that encodes a second information signal from the second optical network node onto a third optical signal and a fourth optical signal, wherein the third optical signal and the fourth optical signal have different wavelength ranges; a second directional component for directing the third optical signal and the fourth optical signal having different wavelength ranges through one of the first or second interconnectivity component, where the first optical network node has a first receiver that receives the third optical signal and the fourth optical signal and combines the third optical signal and the fourth optical signal into a first combined information signal and the second optical network node has a second receiver that that receives the first optical signal and the second optical signal and combines the first optical signal and the second optical signal into a second combined information signal; and an interconnectivity node that includes the first interconnectivity component for receiving the first optical signal from the directional component of the first optical network node and sending the first optical signal to the second optical network node; and a second interconnectivity component for receiving the second optical signal from the directional component of the first optical network node and sending the second optical signal to the second optical network node.