High-Speed Optical Transceiver for Infiniband and Ethernet

1. An optical transceiver, supporting one or more of Infiniband and Ethernet, the optical transceiver comprising: processing circuitry connected to one or more physical client interfaces for receiving client signals therefrom, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to selectively perform Infiniband or Ethernet control and processing on the client signals; and framing circuitry configured to selectively provide framing on an output from the processing circuitry; wherein the processing circuitry and the framing circuitry utilize mapping to superblocks and aggregation of superblocks; and wherein the framing circuitry is configured to encode the output from the processing circuitry with Forward Error Correction (FEC).

2. The optical transceiver of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is a Field Programmable Gate Array selectively configurable to process Infiniband or Ethernet.

3. The optical transceiver of claim 1 , wherein the framing circuitry is configured to frame the output from the processing circuitry in an Optical Transport Unit/Network (OTU/OTN) complaint framing structure.

4. The optical transceiver of claim 1 , further comprising: an optical modulator configured to modulate data from the framing circuitry onto an optical carrier.

5. The optical transceiver of claim 4 , wherein the optical modulator utilizes Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DQPSK).

6. The optical transceiver of claim 4 , wherein the optical modulator utilizes a multiple bits per symbol modulation format.

7. The optical transceiver of claim 1 , wherein the one or more physical client interfaces are standards-compliant and multi-sourced physical client interfaces.

8. The optical transceiver of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry and the framing circuitry are interconnected by SerDes Framer Interface Level 5 (SFI-5+) interfaces.

9. An optical system, supporting one or more of Infiniband and Ethernet transmission, the optical system comprising: one or more client interfaces for one or more of Infiniband and Ethernet signals; a client interface module coupled to the one or more client interfaces, wherein the client interface module is configured to one or more of process and aggregate the one or more of Infiniband and Ethernet signals, frame the one or more of Infiniband and Ethernet signals, and output a single signal, and wherein the client interface module is configured to accept one Infiniband or Ethernet signal at 100 Gb/s or multiple Infiniband or Ethernet signals for aggregation to 100 Gb/s; and an optical modulator coupled to the client interface module, wherein the optical modulator is configured to utilize the single signal to modulate an optical carrier for transmission of the one or more of Infiniband and Ethernet signals; wherein the client interface module comprises one or more Field Programmable Gate Arrays selectively configurable to process Infiniband or Ethernet.

10. The optical system of claim 9 , wherein the client interface module is configured to encode the single signal with Forward Error Correction (FEC).

11. The optical system of claim 9 , wherein the client interface module is configured to frame the single signal in an Optical Transport Unit/Network (OTU/OTN) compliant framing structure.

12. The optical system of claim 9 , wherein the optical modulator utilizes Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DQPSK).

13. The optical system of claim 9 , wherein the optical modulator utilizes a multiple bits per symbol modulation format.

14. The optical system of claim 9 , wherein the one or more client interfaces are standards-compliant and multi-sourced physical client interfaces.

15. An optical transceiver, supporting one or more of Infiniband and Ethernet, the optical transceiver comprising: processing circuitry connected to one or more physical client interfaces for receiving client signals therefrom, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to selectively perform Infiniband or Ethernet control and processing on the client signals; framing circuitry configured to selectively provide framing on an output from the processing circuitry; and an optical modulator configured to modulate data from the framing circuitry onto an optical carrier; wherein the processing circuitry and the framing circuitry utilize mapping to superblocks and aggregation of superblocks.

16. The optical transceiver of claim 15 , wherein the framing circuitry is configured to encode the output from the processing circuitry with Forward Error Correction (FEC).

17. The optical transceiver of claim 15 , wherein the framing circuitry is configured to frame the output from the processing circuitry in an Optical Transport Unit/Network (OTU/OTN) compliant framing structure.

18. The optical transceiver of claim 15 , wherein the one or more physical client interfaces are standards-compliant and multi-sourced physical client interfaces.