Alcatel

An Maria Irene Deckers

Sven Jozef Jeanne Van Den Bosch

Olivier Didier Duroyon

Gert Van Hoey

Hans De Neve

Guido August Luyts

Jan Martha Romain Van Bogaert

Paloma De La Vallee

Nathalie Maria Cornelia Degrande

Provided is a management-system for use in a network environment including a first and second IP networks and a transport network which connects the first and second IP networks. The management system includes: a converter for optimizing a path in an IP-domain via a first algorithm and for converting IP-traffic-signals into transport-traffic-signals; and an optimiser which optimizes a topology that overlays the transport network by optimizing channels in the transport-network according to at least one second algorithm. The first algorithm is an IP multi protocol label switching routing optimization algorithm. The second algorithm is an algorithm based on a plurality of constraints and objectives such as a flow conservation constraint, logical link capacity constraint, optical router port constraint, wavelength cost objective, optical router port occupation objective, advertised link number objective, spare capacity objective, wavelength re-use benefit objective and optical service level agreement constraint.

Network-system, management-system, method and computer program product

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St. Katelijne Waver, Belgium

An Maria Irene Deckers