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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2016
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Petar Djukic, Ottawa, CA;
Todd Morris, Stittsville, CA;
Romualdas Armolavicius, Stittsville, CA;
Stephen Shew, Ottawa, CA;
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
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.