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Patent Inventor Names
Zareh Baghdasarian0
Ali Najib Saleh0
Haig Michael Zadikian0
Vahid Parsi0
Date of Patent
December 15, 2009
Patent Application Number
11054108
Date Filed
February 9, 2005
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Patent abstract
A method of operating an optical network is described. The network includes a number of nodes connected by a number of links. A method according to the present invention provisions a virtual path between a first and a second one of the plurality of nodes by: identifying the first and the second nodes, discovering a physical path from the first node to the second node, and establishing the virtual path. The method discovers a physical path from the first node to the second node by automatically identifying nodes forming the physical path. The method establishes the virtual path by configuring a set of connections between the nodes forming the physical path.
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