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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2002
Bernd Stilling, Munich, DE;
Bernd Stilling, Munich, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
In order to set up a bidirectional connection path in an optical transmission system composed of a number of switched optical network nodes having a number of unidirectional terminating units, in which each unidirectional terminating unit of a network node is connected to a unidirectional terminating unit of a further network node via a unidirectional connection path section, an adaptation layer is provided via which at least two unidirectional terminating units of an optical network node which have opposite transmission directions are combined to form one bidirectional terminating unit and addressed together. As a result, the setting up of the bidirectional connection paths is improved in a particularly advantageous way in terms of the duration and the signaling complexity.