US Patent Issued to Ciena on June 23 for "Reconfigurable mesh interconnect for hybrid electrical-optical connectivity between regional data centers" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,181, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Reconfigurable mesh interconnect for hybrid electrical-optical connectivity between regional data centers" was invented by Michael Y. Frankel (Hallandale Beach, Fla.), Vladimir Pelekhaty (Baltimore), Spencer Giacalone (Indianapolis) and Daniel Rivaud (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical bypass system for interconnecting a plurality of data centers with a regional hub networking node includes an optical switching layer configured to receive a plurality of channels from each of the plurality of data centers, and to switch the plurality of channels from ea...