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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2001
Sid Chaudhuri, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Gisli Hjalmtysson, Audubon, PA (US);
Jennifer Yates, Madison, NJ (US);
Sid Chaudhuri, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Gisli Hjalmtysson, Audubon, PA (US);
Jennifer Yates, Madison, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for lightpath restoration in a reconfigurable optical network comprises the steps of naming each network addressable element in said reconfigurable optical network, determining current topology in said reconfigurable optical network, determining current resources in said reconfigurable optical network, requesting establishment of a lightpath, requesting reservation of restoration capacity, allocating the lightpath, and reserving the restoration capacity. Also disclosed is a method for lightpath restoration that comprises the steps of reserving restoration capacity, detecting transmission failures in the reconfigurable optical network, handling exceptions as a result of transmission failures, and allocating transmission capacity.