Patent ID: 9344210
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: H04J,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method in an Optical Transport Network (OTN) network, comprising: provisioning an end-to-end path with a defined committed information rate (CIR) and a peak information rate (PIR) via an optical control plane; computing a path for the end-to-end path based on the CIR and the PIR, wherein the path is an Optical Channel Data Unit (ODU) in the OTN network and is computed to support the PIR if there is a path to support the PIR and is computed to at least support the CIR if there is no path to support the PIR; configuring the end-to-end path on the computed path at an ODU data rate supporting the PIR if the computed path can support the PIR or at the ODU data rate supporting the CIR if the computed path can support the CIR and not the PIR; and adjusting the ODU data rate of the end-to-end path based on a rate adjustment requirement in the OTN network and based on the CIR and the PIR.