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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1991
Masahiro Eda, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A supervisory node (2) and non-supervisory nodes (3 through 9) are connected in a loop by an optical transmission path (1). Over the loop (1) are transferred optical signals having wavelengths of .lambda.1 through .lambda. n. An access right control packet 10 is transferred in the loop at the optical wavelength of .lambda.1. A node performing data transmission by line exchange writes its own node address (SA), the destination address (DA) and transmit reservation in the header of the access right control packet 10, and sends the packet out on the optical transmission path. The supervisory node 2 having received this access right control packet writes the wavelength to be used (.lambda.i) into the used wavelength field (UWL), and notifies the transmit and receive nodes of the choice of the wavelength. The transmit node sends data to the receive node by line exchange at the designated wavelength .lambda.i.