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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2011
Ruomei Mu, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Ekaterina A. Golovchenko, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
Frank W. Kerfoot, Iii, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Ruomei Mu, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Ekaterina A. Golovchenko, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
Frank W. Kerfoot, III, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Tyco Electronics Subsea Communications LLC, Eatontown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method of managing fault recovery in a trunk-branched OADM network may include determining that an optical power level over data channels of a first communications link between a first and a second terminal of the branched optical network exceeds an optical power limit. The method may further include increasing optical power sent over spare channels of the first communications link to a first level at which the optical power level over the data channels decreases to a second level below the optical power limit.