Through our post trade risk and information services we help our customers manage and mitigate risks in their portfolios. The Group matches buyers and sellers in the wholesale markets in interest rates, credit, commodities, FX, emerging markets and equity derivatives through voice and electronic networks. ICAP is the world's leading interdealer broker and provider of post trade risk and information services. ICAP Patent Brokerage is a division of ICAP plc and the world's largest intellectual property brokerage and patent auction firm. The basic patent technology is adaptable to ROADMs, cross connect switching, and applications where low latency is critical. Its applications include cloud computing, cyber security, and mobile backhaul, packet switching, and high frequency stock market trading. The ferroelectric switch supports high-speed error detection, self diagnosis and repair, and can be rapidly reconfigured. The patented switch comprises an array of ferroelectric and Gires-Trounois inferrometers, which can switch up to 1,000,000 times faster than liquid crystal or rotating mirror switches. The ferroelectric switch technology for sale is expected to switch in 10 nanoseconds a dramatic increase in switching speed compared to current large crossbar MEMS and liquid crystal switches. This portfolio includes high-speed optical switch technology with interferometric phase spatial light modulators. The patented technology is adaptable to R OADMs, cross connect switching, and other applications. Its applications include network monitoring and system repair, cloud computing, cyber security, and mobile backhaul where higher switching speeds are required to handle projected traffic. Additionally, the switch supports high-speed error detection, self diagnosis, repair, and can be rapidly reconfigured from a control station. The switch allows for a more rugged and reliable design than the current O-O MEMS and liquid crystal switches. The high-acoustic resonances of its very small mechanical elements and MEMS elements are not required to move a distance of more than half a wavelength of light. The switching time of the offered switch can be as low as, and possibly less than, 10 microseconds, which is more than 1000 times faster than other large MEMS or liquid crystal switches. The assets for sale are relevant to the changing fiber-optic communications industry as new, fourth generation equipment is replacing existing systems requiring higher switching speeds. This portfolio includes a basic patent for a next-generation large all-optical communication switch with unique optical deflectors. Lot 43 - Next-Generation Large All-Optical Communication Switch Further, low latency switching is a requirement to diagnose and switch to an alternate route to enable rapid system reconfiguration and rapid recovery from system outages and for avoiding cyber attacks. These optical switches use mechanical components such as rotating mirrors, which severely limit the speed and stability of optical switching. Present traffic is limited due to the normal switching speed of O-O switches at 10-20 milliseconds. The growing demand for capacity requires a larger number of fibers to be switched at system nodes, which is a difficult task for an OEO switch. These innovative technologies are highly relevant to a wide-range of fiber-optic communication applications, such as cloud computing, cyber security, and stock market trading, where switching speed is essential," says Dean Becker, CEO of ICAP Patent Brokerage.Ĭurrent fiber-optic communication systems employ both all-optical (O-O) and traditional optical-to-electrical-to-optical (OEO) switches. "We are excited to be offering these optical switching portfolios to our global base of buyers. The patent portfolios will be included as two lots in the 17th ICAP Ocean Tomo IP Auction on November 29, 2012, at The Ritz Carlton in San Francisco, California. ICAP Patent Brokerage announces for auction optical switching technology portfolios from Comptic, Inc., comprising high-speed optical switching innovations for the fiber-optic communications industry.