Patent ID: 11902723
Assignee: NUBIS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. An apparatus comprising a control system configured to synchronize two or more network elements, the control system comprising:
a first port configured to receive a first local time information from a first network element;
a second port configured to receive a second local time information from a second network element;
a processor configured to compute, from the first local time information and the second local time information, one or more global time values; and
a third port configured to transmit the one or more global time values to the first network element or to a third network element different from the first and second network elements;
wherein the first local time information and the second local time information each represents a function of two local time values, the local time values being associated with a same time stamp extracted by each of the first and second network elements from respective sequences of optical frame templates and loaded optical frames received thereat.