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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2020
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Choudhury A. Al Sayeed, Ottawa, CA;
Radmila Kovacevic, Ottawa, CA;
Edward Chen, Ottawa, CA;
David Miedema, Ottawa, CA;
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods include, responsive to provisioning a media channel () on a degree, wherein the media channel () is a contiguous portion of optical spectrum supporting N channels, N is greater than 1, causing allocation of optical filter bandwidth in an optical multiplexing/demultiplexing device for M channels () in the media channel (), where M is less than N; causing provisioning of the M channels () in the media channel (); and causing configuration of channel holders in the media channel from a channel holder source () for a part of the portion of the optical spectrum unoccupied by the M channels ().