At least one source of light mounted in a terrestrial vehicle optically couples to one or more light-bearing conduits. Various sizes of conduit can be utilized and the conduits can be grouped or physically separated. One, some, or all of these light-bearing conduits may carry any or all of visible light, data-bearing light, and power conveying light for use by any of a variety of illumination components, data-capable components, and light-to-electricity conversion components, respectively. A given component may itself constitute both an illumination component and a data-capable component, or both an illumination component and a light-to-electricity conversion component, or both a data-capable component and a light-to-electricity conversion component, or a component that constitutes each of an illumination component, a data-capable component, and a light-to-electricity conversion component as desired.

At least one source of light mounted in a terrestrial vehicle optically couples to one or more light-bearing conduits. Various sizes of conduit can be utilized and the conduits can be grouped or physically separated. One, some, or all of these light-bearing conduits may carry any or all of visible light, data-bearing light, and power conveying light for use by any of a variety of illumination components, data-capable components, and light-to-electricity conversion components, respectively. A given component may itself constitute both an illumination component and a data-capable component, or both an illumination component and a light-to-electricity conversion component, or both a data-capable component and a light-to-electricity conversion component, or a component that constitutes each of an illumination component, a data-capable component, and a light-to-electricity conversion component as desired.

An optical access network includes an optical hub having at least one processor, and a plurality of optical fiber strands. Each optical fiber strand has a first strand end connected to the optical hub. The network further includes a plurality of nodes connected to at least one segment of a first fiber strand of the plurality of optical fiber strands. Each node is sequentially disposed at respective locations along the first fiber strand at different differences from the optical hub, respectively. The network further includes a plurality of end-points. Each end-point includes a receiver. Each respective receiver (i) has a different optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) from the other receivers, (ii) is operably coupled with at least one node of the plurality of nodes, and (iii) is configured to receive the same optical wavelength signal from the first fiber strand as received by the other receivers.

A method for controlling data transmission and reception and an application system thereof are provided. In the method, the peer-to-peer communication system is initialized to set each communication unit in the peer-to-peer communication system to be in a data receiving state. A communication host controls, according to a communication status of the peer-to-peer communication system, a controlled electrical connection path between the communication host and a communication interface to the communication transmission path, to work in a mode allowing data transmission from the communication slave to a communication host side of the controlled electrical connection path, or a mode allowing data transmission from the communication host side of the controlled electrical connection path to the communication slave.

With respect to an optical transceiver that can communicate with a host device through a serial communication bus, the optical transceiver includes a signal processor that processes an electrical signal, a photoelectric converter that performs conversion between the electrical signal and an optical signal, a first memory that includes a first region, a second memory, an internal serial communication bus that has a data transfer rate higher than that of the serial communication bus, and a transfer part that stores a divided program received from the host device in the first region and transfers the divided program stored in the first region to the second memory through the internal serial communication bus. The transfer part starts storing of another divided program in a transferred region of the first region before the second memory completes an operation of writing the divided program to memory cells of the second memory.

A first processing unit for a computer server apparatus includes a first circuit configured to process a first type of data to be transmitted and received over a communication channel in accordance with a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) protocol, a second circuit configured to process a second type of data to be transmitted and received over the communication channel in accordance with a compute express link (CXL) protocol, and an optical communication interface configured to modulate the first type of data and the second type of data into a first signal in a PAM format to be transmitted over the communication channel to a second processing unit and receive, from the second processing unit over the communication channel, a second signal including either one of the first type of data and the second type of data modulated in the PAM format.

A first processing unit for a computer server apparatus includes a first circuit configured to process a first type of data to be transmitted and received over a communication channel in accordance with a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) protocol, a second circuit configured to process a second type of data to be transmitted and received over the communication channel in accordance with a compute express link (CXL) protocol, and an optical communication interface configured to modulate the first type of data and the second type of data into a first signal in a PAM format to be transmitted over the communication channel to a second processing unit and receive, from the second processing unit over the communication channel, a second signal including either one of the first type of data and the second type of data modulated in the PAM format.

A wireless optical communication network includes a base station established for wireless optical communication using a wireless optical signal and including a participant apparatus moveable with respect to the base station including a communication unit established for wireless optical communication. Further, the participant apparatus includes a deflection unit configured to deflect at least part of the wireless optical signal between a first direction between the deflection unit and the communication unit and a second direction between the deflection unit and the base station.

The present disclosure provides a resource management method, a communication device, and a storage medium. The resource management method includes: obtaining node identification information and interface information of an optical network node; establishing a node resource model according to the node identification information and the interface information; and storying the node resource model in a resource library.

The present disclosure provides a resource management method, a communication device, and a storage medium. The resource management method includes: obtaining node identification information and interface information of an optical network node; establishing a node resource model according to the node identification information and the interface information; and storying the node resource model in a resource library.