Abstract: The present invention provides for an optical cable and methods for interconnecting modular components with optical fibers. Each optical fiber is electronically labeled with a unique serial number such that interconnections using the optical fibers can be accurately audited.

Abstract: The present invention provides for an optical cable and methods for interconnecting modular components with optical fibers. Each optical fiber is electronically labeled with a unique serial number such that interconnections using the optical fibers can be accurately audited.

Abstract: A high capacity digital non-blocking cross-connect switching fabric is realized by employing a multi-port RAM based space-time switch having a plurality of write circuits and a plurality of read circuits, each of which operates at a timing rate that is a prescribed fraction of the input/output clock rate of the input/output ports of the multi-port RAM based cross-connect switching fabric. The at least one multi-port RAM switch unit has a plurality of write circuits and a plurality of read circuits, each of which operates at a timing rate that is a prescribed fraction of the input/output clock rate of the input/output ports of the multi-port RAM based cross-connect switching fabric. Additionally, in one embodiment, each of the write circuits and each of the read circuits has independent and unrestricted access to all data storage positions in each of a plurality of storage units that make up the at least one multi-port RAM switch unit.

Abstract: Error control coding is applied to data streams transmitted through transmission equipment such as a telecommunications switch having a distributed synchronous switch fabric. Each k-symbol dataword is encoded to generate an n-symbol codeword that is then sliced for transmission through the transmission equipment. After routing, error-correction decoding is applied to the resulting routed n-symbol codeword to detect and correct one or more errors in the codeword to generate a k-symbol routed dataword that is identical to the original incoming dataword. Depending on the coding scheme, different types and numbers of errors can be corrected in each codeword. For example, for Reed-Solomon [12, 8, 5] coding with Galois field (24), corrections can be made for up to four erasures with no random errors, up to two erasures and one; random error, or up to two random errors with no erasures.