Repeater and optical communication system
US7580641B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 12, 2006 |
| Grant date | Aug 25, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 18, 2027 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04Q2011/0039
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Disclosed is a repeater including: a recognizing unit to recognize a destination address of an optical packet from the optical packet which includes the destination address assigned in unit of bit and a bit indicating whether or not a plurality of destination addresses are assigned; an optical splitting unit to split the optical packet into a plurality of optical packets; and selecting units to select transmission channels for the split optical packets on the basis of recognition results by the recognizing units, respectively.
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