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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2008
Jon Thomas Carroll, Milton, GA (US);
Satish Mysore Gopalakrishna, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Matthew Connolly, Canton, GA (US);
Jon Thomas Carroll, Milton, GA (US);
Satish Mysore Gopalakrishna, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Matthew Connolly, Canton, GA (US);
Ciena Corporation, Linthicum, MD (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides systems and methods for parallel multi-core control plane processing with optical networks. This enables optical switches utilizing control planes, such as G.ASON, to meet scalability and performance requirements of evolving networks. The multi-core processing is configured to handle call control for sub-network connections (SNCs) (e.g., requests for creates, failures, restores, routing). Additional control plane functions, such as signaling and related interfaces, routing connection admission control (CAC), naming and addressing, and the like, can also be processed in parallel.