USING FLOATING TRANSPORT CARD FOR BEST EFFORT TRAFFIC

摘要

A network management device monitors an optical network that is configured for a required bandwidth. The optical network includes multiple optical nodes and a plurality of light paths between the multiple optical nodes. The multiple optical nodes include transport cards with a majority of the transport cards provisioned as active cards to receive a traffic load of up to full capacity of the transport cards, and with a minority of the transport cards provisioned as floating spare cards for the active cards. The network management device identifies an unused first floating spare card and an unused second floating spare card in a pair of the multiple optical nodes and automatically provisions, by the network management device, the first floating spare card and the second floating spare card to service a light path for best-effort traffic between the pair of the multiple optical nodes

主权项

1. A method comprising:
monitoring an optical network that is configured for a required bandwidth,
wherein the optical network includes multiple optical nodes and a plurality of light paths between the multiple optical nodes, andwherein the multiple optical nodes include transport cards with a majority of the transport cards provisioned as active cards to receive a traffic load of up to full capacity of the transport cards, and with a minority of the transport cards provisioned as floating spare cards for the active cards; identifying, by a network management device, an unused first floating spare card and an unused second floating spare card in a pair of the multiple optical nodes; and automatically provisioning, by the network management device, the first floating spare card and the second floating spare card to service a light path for best-effort traffic between the pair of the multiple optical nodes.