Patent ID: 8255450

Claim:
A method comprising: sending a request for a physical view of a network path that includes physical devices between two end points; receiving, in response to the request, information obtained by: performing a lookup of the physical devices in the network path, in accordance with the requested physical view, using different types of dependencies between devices to perform lookups of other devices, and determining different paths of multiple single wavelength carrier signals through different sets of components of the physical devices, based on: the lookup, interconnectivity between the different sets of components in the physical devices, physical locations of the different sets of components, and a plurality of different carrier wavelengths corresponding to a same bit rate with the different sets of components; and displaying: a list of the physical devices in an order that the physical devices are physically connected from one of the two end points to another of the two end points, at least a portion of the different sets of components with different single wavelength carrier signals of the multiple single wavelength carrier signals, and at least some physical layer equipment information with each of the different single wavelength carrier signals for the same bit rate.