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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2017
Infinera Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Madhukar Anand, Fremont, CA (US);
Ramesh Subrahmaniam, Fremont, CA (US);
Sanjoy Bardhan, San Jose, CA (US);
Radhakrishna Valiveti, Union City, CA (US);
Infinera Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for packet-optical in-band telemetry (POINT) that may be used in a packet-optical network is disclosed herein. An intermediate POINT device may receive a packet including at least a header and a payload at a packet layer. The POINT device may read intent information from the header, and the intent information may indicate a type of telemetry data to be collected. The POINT device may translate the intent information from the packet layer to generate a device-specific action in an optical layer to the type of telemetry data indicated by the intent. The POINT device may execute the device-specific action in the optical layer to generate a response corresponding to the intent, associate the response with the intent, and encode the response in the packet layer for downstream data forwarding.