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Systems and methods for achieving best effort home route capacity on protection paths during optical restoration

US10587339B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateNov 27, 2018
Grant dateMar 10, 2020
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Expiry dateNov 27, 2038

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04Q2011/0081
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and methods of optical restoration include, in an optical network with a photonic service operating between two nodes via an associated optical modem at each node, wherein each modem is capable of supporting variable capacity, C1, C2, . . . , CN where C1>C2> . . . >CN, detecting a fault on a home route of the photonic service while the photonic service operates at a home route capacity CH, CH is one of C1, C2, . . . , CN−1; downshifting the photonic service to a restoration route capacity CR, CR is one of C2, C2 . . . , CN and CR<CH; switching the photonic service from the home route to a restoration route while the photonic service operates at a restoration route capacity CR; and monitoring the photonic service during operation on the restoration route at the restoration route capacity CR for an upshift.

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