Patent · US Active

Carrier card converter for 10 gigabit ethernet slots

US7620754B2 · kind B2 · utility

3Cited by

15References

13Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Cisco Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

Alan Yee · Los Gatos, US
Eric Wiles · Sunnyvale, US
James Paul Rivers · Saratoga, US
Sandeep Arvind Patel · Los Gatos, US
William Frank Edwards · Livermore, US
Jeffrey D. Provost · Campbell, US

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 25, 2005
Grant date	Nov 17, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 1, 2026

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S439/955
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A carrier module is physically compatible with a XENPAK/X2 10 GE slot and includes a socket for accepting a non-XENPAK/X2 module and interface circuitry for providing appropriate signals to a XENPAK/X2 70-pin connector on an interior side of the carrier module. The carrier module includes a cookie, accessible by host software, identifying the type of carrier module and non-XENPAK/X2 module accepted by the carrier card.

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