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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2005
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 Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method for lightpath provisioning in a reconfigurable optical network that comprises the steps of naming each network addressable element in the reconfigurable optical network, determining current resources therein, determining current topology therein, requesting establishment of a lightpath, and allocating the lightpath. A system for lightpath provisioning in a reconfigurable optical network is also provided, which includes naming each network addressable element in the reconfigurable optical network, determining current topology in the reconfigurable optical network, determining current resources in the reconfigurable optical network, requesting establishment of a lightpath, allocating the lightpath and removing the lightpath upon completion.