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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2021
Charter Communications Operating, Llc, St. Louis, MO (US);
Thomas Dudley, Castle Rock, CO (US);
Ognian Mitev, Aurora, CO (US);
Charter Communications Operating, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
In certain embodiments, a communication (comm) network has a plurality of interconnected comm systems and a transport controller, each comm system having one or more Layer 1 (L1) components connected to one or more Layer 3 (L3) components, wherein at least one L1 component is connected to an L1 component of a different comm system by a link. The transport controller queries L1 components in the comm network for channel characteristics (e.g., optical signal-to-noise ratios (OSNRs)) for links in the comm network and modifies a metric value for a link in the comm network based on the channel characteristic for the link, such that an L3 component transitions from (i) transmitting signals via a first comm path that includes the link to (ii) transmitting signals via a different, second comm path that does not include the link. In this way, system outages due to degraded links can be avoided.
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