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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1999
Filed:
May. 23, 1997
Lev B Sofman, Plano, TX (US);
Sridhar S Nathan, Plano, TX (US);
MCI World Com, Inc., , GA (US);
Abstract
A method of optimizing a telecommunications network in terms of transmission and equipment cost by multiplexing lower bandwidth level telecommunications demand-routes to form higher bandwidth level bundles, by determining, for each demand-route, whether the demand-route includes a patching subroute. For each patching subroute, the method finds a best bundle of demand-routes that includes the patching subroute. The best bundle is the one that has the highest cost gradient between the sum of the costs associated with the demand-routes included in the best bundle and the total cost associated with the best bundle. The method then multiplexes the demand-routes according to the best bundles.