Patent ID: 11888582
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein selecting the first node as the primary node and the second node as the secondary node comprises:
determining a primary functionality for the first node and the second node;
wherein when the first node is capable of primary functionality and the second node is not capable of primary functionality:
setting the first node as the primary node, and

wherein when the first node and second node are capable of primary functionality:
determining a first source media access control (MAC) address for the first node;
determining a second source MAC address for the second node;
comparing the first source MAC address to the second source MAC address; and
setting the first node as the primary node when the first source MAC address is higher than the second source MAC address; and

wherein the operation further comprises:
selecting a first modulation scheme as an active modulation scheme based on the optical modulation information by:
determining, from the available modulation capabilities at the first node and the available modulation capabilities at the second node, the first modulation scheme, wherein the first modulation scheme comprises a modulation scheme available to both the first node and the second node.