COMMUNICATION CHANNEL OPTIMIZATION USING FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION STATISTICS

摘要

An apparatus and method for dynamically optimizing performance in a communication channel are described. The communication channel can be part of a high-speed digital network such as the Internet and can be a dense wavelength-division multiplexed (DWDM) optical communication channel. The DWDM signal includes forward error correction (FEC) information which is added to the DWDM signal and is used within the DWDM optical layer to monitor transfer errors in the data. Error correction statistics generated as a result of analysis of the FEC information in the data in accordance with the invention are used in generating an adjustment to and/or optimizing performance of the system. The adjustment made can include adjusting power level in one or more of the subsignal transmitters.