发明申请
US20090232492A1 DIRECTIONLESS OPTICAL ARCHITECTURE AND HIGHLY AVAILABLE NETWORK AND PHOTONIC RESILIENCE METHODS 有权
无方向性的光学结构和高可用性网络和光电性能方法

  • 专利标题: DIRECTIONLESS OPTICAL ARCHITECTURE AND HIGHLY AVAILABLE NETWORK AND PHOTONIC RESILIENCE METHODS
  • 专利标题(中): 无方向性的光学结构和高可用性网络和光电性能方法
  • 申请号: US12045933
    申请日: 2008-03-11
  • 公开(公告)号: US20090232492A1
    公开(公告)日: 2009-09-17
  • 发明人: LOUDON BLAIRMichael Y. Frankel
  • 申请人: LOUDON BLAIRMichael Y. Frankel
  • 主分类号: H04J14/00
  • IPC分类号: H04J14/00
DIRECTIONLESS OPTICAL ARCHITECTURE AND HIGHLY AVAILABLE NETWORK AND PHOTONIC RESILIENCE METHODS
摘要:
The present invention provides a directionless optical architecture for reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) and wavelength selective switches (WSSs). The directionless architecture utilizes a directionless wavelength switch coupled between client devices and ROADMs/WSSs to eliminate the need to hard-wire client devices to a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) network. Accordingly, client device connections can be automatically routed without manual intervention to provide a highly resilient network design which can recover route diversity during failure scenarios. Additionally, the present invention minimizes deployments of costly optical transceivers while providing superior resiliency. Further, the present invention couples the directionless optical architecture and associated optical protection mechanisms with existing mesh restoration schemes to provide additional resiliency.
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