Systems and methods for policy-based intelligent provisioning of optical transport bandwidth

摘要

Policy-based, on-demand provisioning of optical transport bandwidth is disclosed. In one of many possible embodiments, a system is provided for policy-based, on-demand provisioning of optical transport bandwidth. The system includes a layer-specific operation support subsystem (OSS) configured to manage network elements that form a sub-network over an optical transport network. The optical transport network provides bandwidth-on-demand provisioning capabilities. The layer-specific OSS includes one or more predefined bandwidth provisioning policies. The layer-specific OSS is configured to selectively request on-demand provisioning of bandwidth on the sub-network based on the predefined bandwidth provisioning policies.

主权项

1. A method of provisioning optical transport bandwidth on-demand, the method comprising:
receiving a service request generated by at least one client device in communication with at least one network element associated with at least one layer other than a physical layer of a packet-based converged multi-service network (P-CMSN), the service request being associated with a service provided over the P-CMSN at the layer other than a physical layer of the P-CMSN, the P-CMSN being supported by a Layer-1 optical transport network; and selectively invoking bandwidth-on-demand provisioning capabilities of the Layer-1 optical transport network based on at least one predefined bandwidth provisioning policy associated with the service request.