Patent ID: 9191115
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: H04B,H04J

Abstract:
1. A method of configuring end-to-end ODUj (lower order ODU) network trails across OTN (Optical Transport Network), said method comprises acts of: configuring higher order ODU (ODUk) in a predefined connection policy; identifying the lower order ODUj at transmit end and receive end using a tributary port number (TPN); dynamically allocating timeslots in transmit direction; and automatically detecting timeslots in receive direction by the receiver end using corresponding receive TPN inside multiplex structure identifier (MSI) of Optical Channel Payload Unit (OPUk) for end-to-end network; wherein the predefined connection policy is either TPN based connection policy or time-slot based connection policy; and wherein connection between two ODUj's on a network element is identified using the TPN of the ODUj's for TPN based connection policy.