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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2014
Applicants:
Sebastien Gareau, Ottawa, CA;
Ronald Gagnon, Ottawa, CA;
Andrew Mccarthy, Kanata, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/1664 (2013.01); H04J 3/1652 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for Optical Transport Network (OTN) adaptation to provide sub-rate granularity and distribution include segmenting an OTN signal into N flows of cells with associated identifiers, based on tributary slots of the OTN signal, wherein N≥0, and wherein the cells do not include unallocated payload from the OTN signal; switching the cells to a scheduler; and scheduling, from the scheduler, the cells for a line side modem.