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Optical transport having full and flexible bandwidth and channel utilization

US8644710B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. · US

Inventors

Glenn A. Wellbrock · Wylie, US
Tiejun J. Xia · Richardson, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 15, 2011
Grant date	Feb 4, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 29, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04Q2011/0064
WIPO fieldTelecommunications
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Optical nodes in an optical network may provide directionless, colorless, contentionless, and gridless transmission, reception, and switching of optical signals in which a non-fixed number of optical channels and a non-fixed bandwidth for each optical channel is used. Optical nodes can use the full extent of the optical bandwidth due to the absence of channel spacing.

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