METHOD OF AND OPERATING ARCHITECTURAL ENHANCEMENT FOR COMBINING OPTICAL (PHOTONIC) AND DATA PACKET-BASED ELECTRICAL SWITCH FABRIC NETWORKS WITH A COMMON SOFTWARE CONTROL PLANE WHILE PROVIDING INCREASED UTILIZATION OF SUCH COMBINED NETWORKS

US6785436B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AXIOWAVE Networks, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Rayadurgam Ravikanth · Acton, US
• Kenneth J. Schroder · Waltham, US
• Mukesh Chatter · Concord, US
• Peter Marconi · Franklin, US
• Jeffrey L. Parker · Jacksonville, US
• Dimitry Haskin · Andover, US
• Zbigniew Opalka · Harvard, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 28, 2001
• Grant date: Aug 31, 2004
• Expiry date: Jan 23, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04Q2011/0086
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method of and operating architectural enhancement for combining photonic and data packet-based networks to be unified or integrated as a single device and with a common software control plane, enabling increased utilization of such combined networks and in particular of optical path data flow capacity.