Abstract: A system support assembly comprises a pair of substantially parallel footer forms, insulated concrete forms, footer form base saddles, a poly form saddle assembly and first and second vertical stabilizers. The footer form base saddle may be generally u-shaped and is driven into the ground forming two substantially parallel areas. Each footer form is placed within the row formed by the footer form base saddles such that a cavity is defined therebetween which will ultimately form the footer of the foundation. The poly form saddle assembly comprises a poly form saddle and fasteners. The poly form saddle may also be generally u-shaped and is placed over both footer forms, thus straddling the same. The poly form saddle may then be secured with corresponding fasteners. The insulated concrete forms are placed side by side and are stacked upward, such that a wall is formed. A first poly form vertical stabilizer is placed over the wall and operatively connected to the footer form base saddle.

Abstract: In an optical network, data is sent from a source to a destination over a plurality of wavelengths of light transmitted over optical fibers and switched at a number of optical packet switches. In periodic optical packet switching (POPS), a network management system divides each wavelength into time-slots. In response to a request from a source to transmit variable length data packets to a destination, the network management system allocates an inter-packet interval for the connection. The inter-packet interval is the number of time slots allocated for transmission of a data packet. The source may only begin transmitting a data packet at the first time-slot in the inter-packet interval. In this way, the optical packet switch knows when to expect each new data packet from the source for routing to the destination.