METROARBITER

telecommunications equipment, namely, optical transmission, receiving and networking equipment, namely, switches, transmitters, receivers, multiplexers and demultiplexers, add/drop multiplexers, bragg gratings used to split and recombine light in dense wavelength division multiplexing systems, routers, cross-connects for selectively passing optical signals between multiple optical fibers, amplifiers, and regenerators, and optical network and element management, planning, and interface software designed to monitor and direct the transmission of optical signals within a fiber optic network, and computer systems comprised of multiple servers and workstations attached via a computer network, and optical systems and networks employing such named optical equipment, namely, switches, transmitters, receivers, multiplexers and demultiplexers, add/drop multiplexers, bragg gratings, routers, cross-connects, amplifiers, and regenerators