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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2019
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Gerard L. Swinkels, Ottawa, CA;
James Harley, Nepean, CA;
David W. Boertjes, Nepean, CA;
David Miedema, Ottawa, CA;
Michel Belanger, Montreal, CA;
Paul A. Littlewood, Johns Creek, GA (US);
John P. Mateosky, West River, MD (US);
Michael Y. Frankel, Baltimore, MD (US);
Kevin S. Meagher, Bowie, MD (US);
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
A method, a controller, and an optical network element are configured to perform steps of monitoring one or more optical links each formed by optical transceivers which are configured to provide variable capacity via a plurality of modulation formats; based on the monitoring, causing corresponding optical transceivers for the one or more optical links to operate at a first modulation format different from a second modulation format providing excess capacity; and mapping the excess capacity to bandwidth useable by one or more services managed by the one or more of the management system, the management plane, and the control plane.