Patent ID: 9369200
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04Q

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, with an integrated network controller, state information from optical components of an optical transport system having a plurality of interconnected packet-optical transport devices; applying, with an analytics engine, a set of rules to identify a failure of any of the optical components; computing, with a path computation element of the controller and in response to identifying the failure, at least one updated path through a routing and switching network having a plurality of interconnected layer three (L3) routing components and layer two (L2) switching components for communicating packet-based network traffic; communicating, with a software defined network (SDN) control module of the controller, updated routing information to the routing components to control packet flows through the routing and switching network in accordance with the updated path; and responsive to the updated routing information, configuring, with a routing wavelength and spectrum assignment control module of the controller, the packet-optical transport devices to operate at particular wavelengths based upon bandwidth requirements for the network traffic at each of the routing components.