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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2008
Applicants:
Ahmet A. Akyamac, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Gary W. Atkinson, Freehold, NJ (US);
Ramesh Nagarajan, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Ahmet A. Akyamac, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Gary W. Atkinson, Freehold, NJ (US);
Ramesh Nagarajan, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/08 (2006.01); H04J 14/02 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/0284 (2013.01); H04J 45/28 (2013.01); H04L 41/0663 (2013.01); H04J 14/0295 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system for identifying and, optionally, managing protection resource sharing opportunities, such as within a large-scale wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) mesh network.