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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2015
Applicants:
Steven Clarke, Ottawa, CA;
Sebastien Gareau, Ottawa, CA;
Inventors:
Steven Clarke, Ottawa, CA;
Sebastien Gareau, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01); H04J 13/16 (2011.01); H04J 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 11/0066 (2013.01); H04J 3/1652 (2013.01); H04L 47/828 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0086 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods, for an in-band communication channel in an optical network, include adapting one or more client signals into a line signal for transmission to the second node, and utilizing line adaptation bandwidth of the line signal for the in-band communication channel. The in-band communication channel is operationally independent from the one or more client signals while concurrently being transported together over the line signal. The line adaptation allows a rate of the line signal to be independent of rates of the one or more client signals.