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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2016
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Balagangadhar G. Bathula, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Angela L. Chiu, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Mark David Feuer, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
Rakesh Kumar Sinha, Edison, NJ (US);
John Lester Strand, Nashua, NH (US);
Sheryl Leigh Woodward, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Weiyi Zhang, New Brunswick, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for routing traffic in a reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer layer of a dense wavelength division multiplexing network are disclosed. For example, the method determines the reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer layer has asymmetric traffic, and routes the asymmetric traffic in the reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer layer over a plurality of asymmetrical optical connections, wherein the plurality of asymmetrical optical connections is provided with only uni-directional equipment in the reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer layer.