[Claim 1] A pluggable module comprising: a housing having a first end and a second end; a printed circuit board (PCB) mounted within the housing and the PCB has an extended PCB portion at the first end; a connector at the PCB extended portion at the first end of the PCB and a second end of the PCB at the second end of the housing to form an edge connector as a host interface; wherein the connector at the first end provides a Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) interface; and wherein the module further includes an FPGA configured as an I2C-to-MDIO bridge.

[Claim 2] The pluggable module of claim 1, wherein the Single Pair Ethernet

(SPE) interface connector is mounted at the PCB extended portion at the first end of the PCB.

[Claim 3] The pluggable module of claim 1, wherein the connector provides a

SPE interface and includes one of a three wire terminal block; a horizontal style SPE interface connector; a vertical style SPE connector; an LC style copper jack and a wire trap style connector block.

[Claim 4] The pluggable module of claim 1, further comprising a first Physical

Layer Device or PHY providing SPE interface to a line side single pair media and a second PHY providing an SGMII Ethernet interface to the host.

[Claim 5] The pluggable module of claim 1 wherein a first PHY is provided on the PCB proximate the first end of the PCB.

[Claim 6] The pluggable module of claim 1 wherein a second PHY is provided on the PCB proximate the second end of the PCB.

[Claim 7] The pluggable module of claim 1 wherein first and second PHY devices collectively provide for migration of standard SGMII host interface Ethernet to SPE protocol on a line side.

[Claim 8] The pluggable module of claim 1 wherein the module provides for communication over single twisted pair on a line side interface of the module.

[Claim 9] The pluggable module of claim 1 wherein the extended portion of the

PCB provides an enlarged housing portion to extend beyond a bezel of a host device.

AMENDED SHEET (ARTICLE 19) [Claim 10] A pluggable module comprising: a housing having a first end and a second end; the housing having a first physical layer (PHY) device including a Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) protocol and a second PHY device including an SGMII Ethernet host interface; the first and second PHY devices provide for migration of standard SGMII host interface Ethernet to SPE protocol wherein communication is achieved over single twisted pair on a line side interface connector of the module; and wherein the module further includes an FPGA configured as an I2C-to-MDIO bridge.

[Claim 11] The pluggable module of claim 10 further comprising the FPGA configured as an I2C-to-MDIO bridge; a serial ID EEPROM chip; power supply chip; and a terminal connector block including a copper connector.

[Claim 12] The pluggable module of claim 10 wherein the first PHY is located proximate the first end of the housing.

[Claim 13] The pluggable module of claim 10 wherein the second PHY is located proximate the second end of the housing.

[Claim 14] The pluggable module of claim 10 wherein the line side interface connector comprises one of a three wire terminal block; a horizontal style SPE connector block; a vertical style SPE connector block; an LC style copper jack and a wire trap style connector block.

[Claim 15] The pluggable module of claim 14 wherein the line side interface connector is mounted on an extended portion of a printed circuit board (PCB) and the extended PCB portion forming an enlarged housing portion of the module extending beyond a host equipment bezel surface.

[Claim 16] The pluggable module of claim 15 wherein a host device is migrated to

SPE protocol upon mating of the module thereto.

[Claim 17] The pluggable module of claim 10 wherein the first PHY is mounted at a first end of a printed circuit board (PCB).

[Claim 18] The pluggable module of claim 10 wherein the second PHY is mounted at a second end of a printed circuit board (PCB).

[Claim 19] The pluggable module of claim 18 wherein the first end of the PCB is located proximate a first end of the housing and the second end of the PCB is located proximate a second end of the housing.

[Claim 20] A module comprising:

AMENDED SHEET (ARTICLE 19) a first physical layer (PHY) device including a Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) protocol and a second PHY device including an SGMII Ethernet host interface; the module provides for migration of standard SGMII host interface Ethernet to SPE protocol wherein communication over single twisted pair on a line side interface of the module is provided; and wherein the module further includes an FPGA configured as an I2C-to-MDIO bridge.

AMENDED SHEET (ARTICLE 19)