Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to monitor health data from components and predict needs for maintenance. In at least one embodiment, monitoring health data of cables having one or more known characteristics ands analyzing the health data to determine the health metrics of the one or more cable to generate profiles of the cables used to predict future health metrics of the cables and related cables sharing known characteristics.

Abstract: Clock provisioning techniques that may save chipset space, power, and manufacturing expense.

Abstract: A device is provided comprising an intelligent optical network linecard. An intelligent optical linecard can utilize localized processing that facilitates scaling, enables switching in the optical domain, promotes management of dissimilar networks, provides the ability for bandwidth allocation on demand and in general can interface and utilize optical control plane signaling to dynamically control linecard functions.