Redundancy protection for reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexing (ROADM) branching unit

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15279399

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Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, structures and methods providing fully reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexing (ROADM) that provide redundancy protection against any two (2) simultaneous wavelength selective switch (WSS) failures with only four 2×1 WSS structures for both Eastbound and Westbound traffic, while not requiring bidirectional operation of the WSS structures.

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NEC CORPORATION7-1 SHIBA 5-CHOME MINATO-KU TOKYO 108-8001

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Aida, Ryuji Tokyo, JP 29 126
Ji, Philip Nan Cranbury, US 72 972
Wang, Ting West Windsor, US 763 6307

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