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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1998
Mohammad Taghi Fatehi, Middletown Township, Monmouth County, NJ (US);
Kazem Anaraky Sohraby, Lincroft, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
An optical signal access apparatus responds to variations in network traffic by dynamically assigning the number of wavelengths at originating and terminating optical signal access apparatus. A controller of an optical signal access apparatus monitors network traffic by checking the occupancy level (or other parameters) of data buffers and determines therefrom the number of optical signals that should be allocated to handle the network traffic from those buffers. When the optical signal access apparatus is part of a router it can be used to control traffic at the router as well as on the links between the routers of an optical network.