Ciena Corporation
Systems and methods for achieving best effort home route capacity on protection paths during optical restoration

Abstract:

Systems and methods of optical restoration include, with a photonic service (14), in an optical network (10, 100), operating between two nodes (A, Z) via an associated optical modem (40) at each node, wherein each modem (40) is capable of supporting variable capacity, C.sub.1, C.sub.2, . . . , C.sub.N where C.sub.1>C.sub.2> . . . >C.sub.N, detecting a fault (16) on a home route of the photonic service (14) while the photonic service (14) operates at a home route capacity C.sub.H, C.sub.H is one of C.sub.1, C.sub.2, . . . , C.sub.N-1; downshifting the photonic service (14) to a restoration route capacity C.sub.R, C.sub.R is one of C.sub.2, C.sub.3 . . . , C.sub.N and C.sub.R<C.sub.H; switching the photonic service (14) from the home route to a restoration route (18) while the photonic service (14) operates at a restoration route capacity C.sub.R; and monitoring the photonic service (14) and copropagating photonic services during operation on the restoration route (18) at the restoration route capacity C.sub.R for an upshift of the photonic service (14).