Patent ID: 6959126

Claim:
An optical switch testing system (OSTS) for testing a device under test (DUT), the DUT including a plurality of DUT optical input ports and a plurality of DUT optical output ports, the system comprising: at least one processor; memory; a plurality of OSTS output ports, wherein a selected plurality of the OSTS output ports are each optically connected to a respective DUT input port; a plurality of OSTS input ports, wherein a selected plurality of the OSTS input ports are each optically connected to a respective DUT output port; an optical test stimulation component configured or designed to generate optical test signals to be transmitted to a selected plurality input ports of the DUT; an optical test detection component configured or designed to detect a presence or absence of light on a selected plurality output ports of the DUT; and a traffic analyzer, wherein the traffic analyzer is one of a SONET traffic analyzer and a Gigabit Ethernet traffic analyzer.