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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2011
Bruce Cortez, Freehold, NJ (US);
Martin Birk, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Paul Greendyk, Pompton Plain, NJ (US);
James H. King, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Sherry L. Mccaughan, Quinton, VA (US);
Aswatnarayan Raghuram, Morganville, NJ (US);
Kathleen A. Tse, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Philip Henry Wisseman, Austin, TX (US);
Simon Zelingher, Morganville, NJ (US);
Bruce Cortez, Freehold, NJ (US);
Martin Birk, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Paul Greendyk, Pompton Plain, NJ (US);
James H. King, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Sherry L. McCaughan, Quinton, VA (US);
Aswatnarayan Raghuram, Morganville, NJ (US);
Kathleen A. Tse, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Philip Henry Wisseman, Austin, TX (US);
Simon Zelingher, Morganville, NJ (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Additional bandwidth is provisioned to layer 2/3 networks by initially provisioning optical wavelength channels to meet incremental needs for additional capacity. When bandwidth requirements grow large enough, a wavelength-sized channel is provisioned to meet the bandwidth needs, and the previously provisioned optical wavelength channels are freed up to be reused for additional growth. The optical wavelength channels may be channelized VLANs mapped to resizable optical channel data units such as ODUflex units.