摘要:
An optical add-drop multiplexer having first and second routes includes: an optical cross connect (22, 22#1, 22#2) ; a first multiplexer (23W) optically coupled to a plurality of output ports of the optical cross connect; a second multiplexer (23E) optically coupled to a plurality of other output ports of the optical cross connect; a first wavelength selective switch (24W) to generate a first WDM optical signal including an optical signal output from the first multiplexer and to guide the first WDM optical signal to the first route; and a second wavelength selective switch (24E) to generate a second WDM optical signal including optical signal output from the second multiplexer and to guide the second WDM optical signal to the second route.
摘要:
A flexible open ring optical network includes a plurality of nodes connected by twin or other suitable optical rings. Each node is operable to passively add and passively drop traffic from the rings. The nodes may include a transport element for each ring. The transport elements include an optical splitter element and an optical combiner element. The optical splitter element is operable to passively combine an add signal including local add traffic and a first transport signal including ingress traffic from a coupled optical 4 ring to generate a second transport signal including egress traffic tor transmission on the coupled optical ring. The optical combine element is coupled to the optical splitter element and is operable to passively split a third transport signal including the ingress traffic to generate a drop signal including local drop traffic and a fourth transport signal including the ingress traffic. Protection switching may be provided by selectively operable switches disposed in and distributed around the rings.
摘要:
A system and method for assigning a traffic channel to a wavelength in a multi-ring optical network having bifurcated work and protect wavelengths includes determining a transport direction for the traffic channel in a ring of the multi-ring optical network. An inter/intra ring type of the traffic channel is determined. The traffic channel is assigned to a wavelength in the ring based on the transport direction and the inter/intra ring type of the traffic channel. In a particular embodiment, the traffic channel may be assigned to one of an odd and even wavelength based on the transport direction and one of a high and low wavelength based on the inter/intra ring type.
摘要:
An optical network includes a plurality of add/drop nodes coupled to an optical ring. Each node is operable to passively add and drop traffic to and from the optical ring. The optical network may also include a plurality of subnets with a plurality of add/drop nodes coupled to each subnet. The network may also include a plurality of gateway nodes. Each gateway nodes is coupled to the optical ring at a boundary between neighboring subnets and is operable to selectively pass and terminate wavelength between subnets to allow wavelength reuse in the subnets and to provide protection switching.
摘要:
A system for communicating optical traffic between ring networks includes a first optical ring network and a second optical ring network. Each optical ring network is operable to communicate optical traffic comprising a plurality of wavelengths. The system includes a first ring interconnect (RIC) node and a second RIC node, and each RIC node is coupled to the first and second optical ring networks. The first RIC node is operable to communicate optical traffic between the first and second optical ring networks, and the second RIC node is operable to communicate optical traffic between the first and second optical ring networks when the first RIC node is unable to communicate optical traffic between the first and second optical ring networks. The second RIC node may be operable to determine when the first RIC node is unable to communicate optical traffic between the first and second optical ring networks.
摘要:
The method and system for testing during operation of an open ring network includes opening a ring of the network at the node. Traffic circulating on the ring is dropped in the node to a monitoring element prior to or at the opening of the ring in the node. At the monitoring element, a signal received from the ring is tested. During tested and while the ring is open, traffic continues to be communicated between each node on at least one of the ring or a second ring each connecting the nodes of the network.
摘要:
A method and system for control signaling in an open ring optical network includes transmitting traffic in an optical ring. At each of a plurality of nodes along the ring, local traffic is passively added to and passively dropped from the connected ring. At each node, an ingress optical supervisory channel (OSC) signal is dropped from the ring to a managing element. An egress OSC signal is added to the ring from the managing element. The OSC signals may be in-band signal or out-of-band signals.
摘要:
A failure protection method of a network connecting between nodes by multiple working paths and a protection path is disclosed. An allocation bandwidth is determined to allocate to a detected path where a failure is detected in multiple paths being set to the multiple working paths, depending on the detected path. The detected path is switched from one of the multiple working paths to the protection path. Data to be transmitted by the detected path is transmitted by using the allocation bandwidth determined within an entire bandwidth of the protection path.
摘要:
An optical cross-connect includes multiple input ports that each receive an optical input signal and multiple output ports that each output an optical output signal. The optical cross-connect also includes a distributing amplifier associated with each input port that generates multiple copies of the input signal received at the associated input port. Furthermore, the optical cross-connect includes multiple filter units that receive a copy of one or more of the input signals from one or more of the distributing amplifiers and forward traffic in selected channels of one or more of the received copies. In addition, the optical cross-connect includes a combining amplifier associated with each output port. Each combining amplifier receives the traffic in one or more of the channels forwarded by one or more of the filter units and combines the received traffic into an output signal to be output from the associated output port.
摘要:
An optical network includes a plurality of add/drop nodes coupled to an optical ring. Each node is operable to passively add and drop traffic to and from the optical ring. The optical network may also include a plurality of subnets with a plurality of add/drop nodes coupled to each subnet. The network may also include a plurality of gateway nodes. Each gateway nodes is coupled to the optical ring at a boundary between neighboring subnets and is operable to selectively pass and terminate wavelength between subnets to allow wavelength reuse in the subnets and to provide protection switching.