Patent ID: 8582967

Claim:
A device for multicast of optical signals in the Internet and other networks comprising an electronic part and an optical part where the electronic part consists of a control module, an interface module formed by a power supply block, a block for measuring basic operational parameters of the whole device and an interface, and by a power supply part, wherein the control module is a control low-power single-board computer with fan-less processor compatible with x86 family and disk without any moving parts and where the power supply block of the interface module is connected to the power supply part, to the optical part and to the control module; the interface is connected to the optical part and to the control module, and the block for measuring basic operational parameters of the whole device is connected to the power supply part and to the control module, and wherein input/output interfaces involving a standard interface for communication with a user and/or an interface for communication in an Ethernet network and/or an interface via RS 232 and/or an interface for communication via serial USB bus are connected to the control module, and wherein the optical part of the device is designed as a double-stage, where the first stage is formed by M passive wide-spectrum optical splitters, each of which is equipped with N outputs, and the second stage is realized by N wide-spectrum optical switches, each of which is equipped with M inputs.