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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2007
Filed:
May. 28, 2003
Richard Adleman, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
Peter L. Bartman, Toms River, NJ (US);
Heribert Joseph Blach, Matawan, NJ (US);
Ellen Eng, Lincroft, NJ (US);
Narasimhan Raghavan, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Yan Shi, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Mary Socratous, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
William A. Thompson, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Richard Adleman, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
Peter L. Bartman, Toms River, NJ (US);
Heribert Joseph Blach, Matawan, NJ (US);
Ellen Eng, Lincroft, NJ (US);
Narasimhan Raghavan, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Yan Shi, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Mary Socratous, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
William A. Thompson, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method for the automatic provisioning of a network element (NE) includes receiving a client signal at a tunable optical translator (OT) in the NE, determining the set of channels supported by the OT that are able to correspond to the client signal, eliminating the channels that have connections, that may be present on a line side of the NE in a laser off scan process, or that have not been equipped or otherwise provisioned for transmission, tuning the OT to each of the remaining channels and determining the optical power level of each channel on a line side of the NE in a laser on scan process. Subsequently, the channel with the highest power level is selected to transmit the client signal and associations for a point to point connection for that channel are added for that OT to a database of associations for the NE.