发明名称 |
Broadband optical communication network having optical channel protection apparatus |
摘要 |
The present invention provides an improved optical communication network (300) that utilizes an apparatus of optical channel protection. The apparatus for optical channel protection of the present invention including a transmitting end network switch (200), a first and a second receiving end network switch (201, 202), a plurality of wavelength tuneable transmitting end transponders (400, 401 . . . 405), a plurality of wavelength tuneable receiving end transponders (400′, 401′ . . . 405′), a transmitting end controller (10a) connected to a network monitoring and control system (100a) and a receiving end controller (10b) connected to said network monitoring and control system (100a). The present invention utilizes a method of optical channel protection that can be broadly categorized under optical multiplex switching. |
申请公布号 |
US9059815(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2015.06.16 |
申请号 |
US201313857270 |
申请日期 |
2013.04.05 |
申请人 |
Telekom Malaysia Berhad |
发明人 |
Abdul Manaf Zulhedry;Ssi Dress Andriyanto M.;Tarsono Dedy;Ahmad Asmahanim |
分类号 |
H04J14/02;H04B10/40;H04Q11/00 |
主分类号 |
H04J14/02 |
代理机构 |
Cesari and McKenna, LLP |
代理人 |
Cesari and McKenna, LLP |
主权项 |
1. An apparatus including an improved broadband optical communication network, said improved broadband optical communication network including an optical channel protection apparatus, said improved broadband optical communication network comprising:
a transmitting end that incorporates a transmitting-end portion of said improved optical channel protection apparatus, a receiving end that incorporates a receiving-end portion of said optical channel protection apparatus, and a main fiber link that optically interconnects said transmitting end and said receiving end,
wherein said transmitting-end portion of said optical channel protection apparatus comprises a plurality of wavelength tunable transmitting-end transponders, a transmitting-end network switch that is optically interconnected to a plurality of transmitting customer premise equipment units at an input side thereof and that is optically interconnected to a plurality of non-tunable transmitting-end transponders and to said plurality of wavelength tunable transmitting-end transponders at an output side thereof, a 1×N optical coupler that is optically interconnected to a plurality of output lines of said plurality of wavelength-tunable transmitting-end transponders at an input side thereof, a 1×2 optical coupler having input lines, one of which is optically interconnected to an output side of said 1×N optical coupler and another one of which is optically interconnected to an output of a transmitting-end wavelength division multiplexer, and a transmitting-end controller that is electrically interconnected to said transmitting-end network switch and that serves to control routing of optical signals by said transmitting-end network switch, and wherein said receiving-end portion of said optical channel protection apparatus comprises a plurality of receiving-end wavelength tunable transponders, a first receiving-end network switch that is optically interconnected to a plurality of output lines of a receiving-end optical wavelength de-multiplexer at an input side and that is optically interconnected to a plurality of receiving-end non-tunable transponders and to said plurality of receiving-end wavelength tunable transponders, a second receiving-end network switch that is optically interconnected to said plurality of receiving-end non-tunable transponders and to said plurality of receiving-end wavelength tunable transponders at an input side and that is optically interconnected to a plurality of receiving-end customer premise equipment units at an output side, and a receiving-end controller that is electrically interconnected to said first receiving-end network switch and to said second receiving-end network switch that serve to control routing of optical signals by said first network switch and said second network switches. |
地址 |
Kuala Lumpur MY |