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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2013
Applicant:
Alcatel Lucent Usa, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Douglas Clayton Rider, Ottawa, CA;
James Craig Slezak, Ottawa, CA;
Anthony Vernon Walker Smith, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Biliancourt, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/02 (2006.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 11/0005 (2013.01); H04J 14/0246 (2013.01); H04J 14/0257 (2013.01); H04J 14/0283 (2013.01); H04J 14/0269 (2013.01); H04J 14/0221 (2013.01); H04J 14/0267 (2013.01); H04J 14/0227 (2013.01); H04J 14/0284 (2013.01); H04J 14/0268 (2013.01);
Abstract
The method of placing regenerators along a trail connecting a source network node with a destination network node of an automatically switched optical network first identifies N tentative regeneration sites and n+1 optical paths along the trail. Wavelengths are assigned to each optical path, and the performance of the trail is assessed based on regenerator placement data and wavelength assignment data.