Optical connection hitless bandwidth or spectrum resizing

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9124385
APP PUB NO 20140044431A1
SERIAL NO

13719953

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A method and system are disclosed in which a signaling message conforming to a GMPLS signaling protocol and associated with an optical connection is generated and transmitted by a transmit node to a receive node to change the size of a connection bandwidth in a network. The message may include information indicative of a number of spectral portions which correspond to frequencies of selected ones of the plurality of optical signals, selected ones of the plurality of optical signals being available to carry data from the transmit node to the receive node; and information indicative of a change in the number of selected ones of the plurality of optical signals. The transmit node may resize the connection while data traffic continues to be transmitted over the connection in the Optical Transport Network without service disruption to the client attached to the connection being resized.

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INFINERA CORP140 CASPIAN COURT SUNNYVALE CA 94089

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dhillon, Abinder Allen, US 6 65
Hussain, Iftekhar Santa Clara, US 12 140
Rao, Rajan Cupertino, US 48 405
Sosa, Marco San Jose, US 5 72

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