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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rayadurgam Ravikanth, Acton, MA (US);
Kenneth J. Schroder, Waltham, MA (US);
Mukesh Chatter, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Peter Marconi, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Jeffrey Parker, Newton, MA (US);
Dimitry Haskin, Andover, MA (US);
Zbigniew Opalka, Harvard, MA (US);
Assignee:
Axiowave Networks, Inc., Marlborough, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/25 ; H04J 1/400 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/25 ; H04J 1/400 ;
Abstract
A method of and operating architectural enhancement for combining photonic and data packet-based networks to be unified or integrated as a single device and with a common software control plane, enabling increased utilization of such combined networks and in particular of optical path data flow capacity.