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Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 27, 2016
Applicant:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Inventors:

Petar Djukic, Ottawa, CA;

Todd Morris, Stittsville, CA;

Romualdas Armolavicius, Stittsville, CA;

Stephen Shew, Ottawa, CA;

Assignee:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04B 10/40 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/40 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/124 (2013.01); H04L 45/62 (2013.01);
Abstract

Modem reclamation systems and methods for optimizing optical modem use in a network include determining costs and capacity range for Ladjacencies in the network based on Linformation and Linformation, wherein Lis a digital layer with routed traffic and L0 is a media layer with optical modems that are reclaimed when their utilization is reduced in the digital layer; determining an order of Lconnection moves that minimizes the costs of the Ladjacencies, to reclaim or minimize the optical modem use; and performing the Lconnection moves based on the order and updating the Ladjacencies.


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