• An optical cross-connect (OXC) is a device used by telecommunications carriers to switch high-speed optical signals in a fiber optic network, such as an...
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    optical fiber connector is a device used to link optical fibers, facilitating the efficient transmission of light signals. An optical fiber connector...
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  • A digital cross-connect system (DCS or DXC) is a piece of circuit-switched network equipment, used in telecommunications networks, that allows lower-level...
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    links connecting optical cross-connect (OXCs) through a comb of several tens of wavelength channels, with typical data rates of 10 or 40 Gbit/s. Optical end-to-end...
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    be a specific type of optical cross-connect. A traditional OADM consists of three stages: an optical demultiplexer, an optical multiplexer, and between...
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  • electrical, as in a repeater on a T-carrier line, or optical, as in an OEO optical cross-connect. The process is used when it is necessary to change the...
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    be performed in the field, for example to make cross-connect jumpers to size. Optical fiber connectors are used in telephone company central offices,...
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    (WDM) is a technology which multiplexes a number of optical carrier signals onto a single optical fiber by using different wavelengths (i.e., colors)...
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  • MOEMS includes a wide variety of devices, for example optical switch, optical cross-connect, tunable VCSEL, microbolometers. These devices are usually...
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    position Moiré type encoder for use in a control system US 6763160  Optical cross connect switch having improved alignment control system US 6832552  Method...
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    networks, evolved from digital cross-connect system (DCS)-based mesh architectures in the 1980s, to SONET/SDH (Synchronous Optical Networking/Synchronous Digital...
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  • switched network Load-balanced switch Modular computer network switch Optical cross-connect Packet switch Router (computing) Stackable switch Telephone exchange...
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  • noise-cancelling headphones by Sennheiser Photonic Cross Connect, a type of optical cross-connect device that switches optical signals in a fiber optic network Plataforma...
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    An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage...
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  • OXC may refer to: Optical cross-connect Waterbury-Oxford Airport This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title OXC. If an internal...
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  • Winfrey Network OX – (p) IATA code for Orient Thai Airlines OXC – (p) Optical cross-connect OXF – (p) IATA code for London Oxford Airport Oxfam – (p) Oxford...
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  • Audio connectors and video connectors are electrical or optical connectors for carrying audio or video signals. Audio interfaces or video interfaces define...
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  • control the transmission paths of optical signals by creating and adjusting cross-connection paths on the NMS Optical-layer grooming used together with...
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    in a specific linear polarization state; there is little or no cross-coupling of optical power between the two polarization modes. Such fiber is used in...
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  • in telecommunications. It is a cross-vendor, cross-technology man-machine language, and is widely used to manage optical (SONET) and broadband access infrastructure...
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    electronic cross-connects with optical-electrical-optical (OEO) conversion. The other is transparent switch architecture which utilizes all optical cross-connects...
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  • of SONET ring networks, and finally Optical Cross Connect (OXC)-based mixed protection and restoration of optical mesh networks The first restoration...
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  • Wavelength selective switching (category Optical devices)
    would test severely the manufacturability limits of large-scale optical cross-connects for even moderate fiber counts. A more practical approach, and one...
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  • cable termination is the addition of connectors to each optical fiber in a cable. The fibers need to have connectors fitted before they can attach to other...
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    equipment has all the capabilities of legacy ADMs, but can also include cross-connect functionality to manage multiple fiber rings in a single chassis. These...
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    In computing, an optical disc drive (ODD) is a disc drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves within or near the visible light spectrum as...
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  • octet-based format such as TCP/IP, ATM, frame relay, Ethernet, etc. If cross-connect capability is to be maintained at the VT1.5 level, then the individual...
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    design is used, then a cross-connect box is placed in a strategic location to feed a determined distribution area. The cross-connect box, also known as a...
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    of optical communication for transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of infrared or visible light through an optical fiber...
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    a matrix with M × N cross-points or places where connections can be made. At each crosspoint is a switch; when closed, it connects one of the inputs to...
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