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Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2008

Filed:

May. 03, 2004
Applicants:

Rene Helbing, Palo Alto, CA (US);

William R. Trutna, Jr., Atherton, CA (US);

Ian Hardcastle, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Rene Helbing, Palo Alto, CA (US);

William R. Trutna, Jr., Atherton, CA (US);

Ian Hardcastle, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
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.


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