US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 3 for "Method and apparatus to use a passive optical network to communicate between servers in a datacenter" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,984, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus to use a passive optical network to communicate between servers in a datacenter" was invented by Daniel Christian Biederman (Saratoga, Calif.) and Renuka V. Sapkal (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive optical network is used for communications in a data center between an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) in an Ethernet switch and an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) in a compute node in a server. The passive optical network reduces the latency from microseconds to single digit nanoseconds in both upstream and downstream directi...