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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2023
Filed:
May. 20, 2021
Infinera Corp., Annapolis Junction, MD (US);
Iftekhar Hussain, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Steven J. Hand, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Paul N. Freeman, Saratoga, CA (US);
Infinera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system comprising a hub transceiver coupled to a first network node; and a plurality of edge transceivers, each configured to be communicatively coupled to a respective second network node, and to the hub transceiver, wherein the hub transceiver is operable to transmit a first message to each of the edge transceivers, the first message comprising an indication of available optical subcarriers and availability to use multiple non-contiguous optical subcarriers; receive, a service request identifying a selected subset of the available optical subcarriers including a non-contiguous first optical subcarrier and second optical subcarrier, transmit a second message to indicate either a success or a failure, and receive, via the selected subset, data from the second network node, and wherein at least one of the edge transceivers is operable to, transmit, using the selected subset of available optical subcarriers, data from the second network node to the first network node.