H - Electricity – 04 – B
Patent
H - Electricity
04
B
H04B 10/10 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2055012
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE In a local area network the conventional "hard wire" connection between a data communication device and a network segment is replaced with a pair of transmitter/receiver units which communicate optically through free space. The optical connections can be configured to conform to a variety of conventional protocols including carrier sense multiple access/collision detect and token passing ring protocols. The transmitter/receiver units can communicate with each other by means of coded control signals which are not passed along the network. In this manner, the optical link is managed directly by the transmitter/receiver units and many of the problems, such as collision detection and failed link removal, which have plagued the prior art are avoided without involving the network.
Burdick Dominic
Hicks John W.
Mansfield Robert
Moore Wayne
Olmstead Charles H.
Infralan Technologies Inc.
Ogilvy Renault
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