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Null Networks LLC

Zhi Wang

Qiyong B Bian

Alfred C She

Erich Boleyn

Jonathan A Tuchow

Juliet Z Cai

An API including a registration function and a configuration function, is provided to an optical networking apparatus to facilitate registration of configuration specification delimiter pairs by service routines of function blocks of multi-protocol optical networking modules (MPONM), and extraction of configuration specifications for the function blocks from a configuration specification input set using the registered configuration specification delimiter pairs. In one embodiment, the configuration function also receives current configuration of the function blocks, and merges the received current configurations of the function blocks into a configuration specification output set, separating the merged configuration specification using the registered configuration specification delimiters.

Extensible configuration methods for optical networking apparatuses with multiple multi-protocol optical networking modules

Application program interface (API) reads a count value from a hardware counter in a network device. Then, the API resets the hardware counter and uses the count value to update a software counter. The software counter is stored in a memory location corresponding to the hardware counter. The memory is accessible both by the API and an application program using the API.

Counter functions in an application program interface for network devices

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Zhi Wang