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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shuxian Song, Baltimore, MD (US);
Michael Taylor, Laurel, MD (US);
Assignee:
Ciena Corporation, Lithicum, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/402 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/402 ;
Abstract
A technique in accordance with the present invention provides a systematic approach to find a sub-optimum channel plan with reasonable computational time. In each step, this technique allocates channels to minimize the FWM crosstalk in terms of fiber characteristics, while selecting as many channels as possible to increase the bandwidth efficiency.