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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2015
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Gerard Leo Swinkels, Ottawa, CA;
Darren Hennigar, Ottawa, CA;
Choudhury A. Al Sayeed, Gloucester, CA;
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for controlling an optical switch via one of a control plane and Software Defined Networking (SDN) include associating one or more managed endpoints with one or more line ports of an optical switch; receiving state information for the one or more managed endpoints over a session associated with one of the control plane and the SDN; and controlling switching of the one or more line ports based on the state information for the one or more managed endpoints. The optical switch is an all-optical device which does not have access to digital signal quality information of associated signals.