Patent ID: 8676956
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: H04J,H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A network utilization monitoring system for monitoring utilization of photonic network resources in a photonic network, the system comprising: a resource utilization data processor configured to dynamically obtain resource utilization data regarding shared photonic network resources of interest including the utilization of deployed equipment and physical layer parameters, the resource utilization data being expressed as a number of photonic network resources being used; a threshold crossing determination unit configured to determine whether a threshold crossing has occurred by calculating a utilization ratio based on the number of photonic network resources being used versus a total number of photonic network resources available, and comparing the utilization ratio to at least one pre-set monitoring threshold associated with network engineering practices and selected to trigger capacity upgrade of the shared photonic network resources to thereby increase the total number of photonic network resources available; and a user interface configured to indicate utilization information of the shared photonic network resources in accordance with the determination of the threshold crossing determination unit, and configured to set the at least one pre-set monitoring threshold expressed as a ratio of a number of photonic network resources being used and a total number of photonic network resources available.