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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1997
Gary B Davis, Rowlett, TX (US);
MCI Communications Corporation, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
An optical telecommunications system node terminates a plurality of optical cable routes. Each of the optical cable routes includes a traffic route and a restoration route. The node includes a plurality of traffic wavelength division multiplexers and a plurality of restoration wavelength division multiplexers. A traffic wavelength division multiplexer is connected to each traffic route and a restoration wavelength division multiplexer is connected to each restoration route. The node includes a plurality of optical cross connect layers. Each optical cross connect layer includes a connection to each of the traffic wavelength division multiplexers and to each of the restoration wavelength division multiplexers.