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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2019
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Choudhury A. Al Sayeed, Stittsville, CA;
Radmila Kovacevic, Carp, CA;
Edward Chen, Kanata, CA;
David Miedema, Ottawa, CA;
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
An optical network element includes an optical multiplexing/demultiplexing device forming a degree; a channel holder source connected to the optical multiplexing/demultiplexing device; and a controller configured to, responsive to provisioning a media channel on the degree, wherein the media channel is a contiguous portion of optical spectrum supporting N channels, N>1, cause allocation of optical filter bandwidth in the optical multiplexing/demultiplexing device for M channels in the media channel, M<N, cause provisioning of the M channels in the media channel, and cause configuration of N−M channel holders in the media channel from the channel holder source.