Patent ID: 7421201

Claim:
An optical-signal transmission route determination method used in an optical signal transmission system that includes a transmitter for optical signals, a receiver for the optical signals, and one or more repeaters for repeating the optical signals transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver, and has transmission routes for optical signals between the transmitter and the receiver, each transmission route including a plurality of sections, the method serving to determine one of the transmission routes used to set a line for the optical signals between the transmitter and the receiver and comprising: obtaining, for each section of each transmission route, a number of all wavelengths in-use in that section; calculating, for each transmission route, a sum of the number of all wavelengths in-use in that transmission route; comparing the sums calculated, each sum corresponding to a different transmission route; and determining a transmission route, in which the sum is smallest in the comparison among the transmission routes compared.