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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2008
Filed:
May. 03, 2004
Rene Helbing, Palo Alto, CA (US);
William R. Trutna, Jr., Atherton, CA (US);
Ian Hardcastle, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rene Helbing, Palo Alto, CA (US);
William R. Trutna, Jr., Atherton, CA (US);
Ian Hardcastle, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Avago Technologies Fiber IP Pte Ltd, Singapore, SG;
Abstract
The optically-switched optical network comprises information signal channels allocated for optically transmitting one or more information signals; routing signal channels allocated for optically transmitting routing signals in parallel with the information signals; and switching nodes each operable in responsive to at least one of the routing signals to switch a multi-wavelength optical signal comprising the one or more information signals and the routing signals to another of the switching nodes.