Patent Document ID: 6094417
Application ID: 09203139
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for generating optimized SONET rings based on an existing SONET system capacity and anticipated system demand comprising: determining existing two-node single path systems present in the existing SONET system; modeling the existing two-node single path systems; determining origin and destination nodes for each user demand; simulating routing of each demand over the existing two-node single path systems; identifying all demands that can be exclusively routed over one of the existing single path two-node pairs; recording any demand which can not be routed over an existing single path two-node pair; modeling a new single path two-node pair system for each demand which cannot be routed; determining whether routing the demand over the new single path system fails; if the routing failed, determining if the demand is unfeasible and generating a report; and recording data representative of the new single path two-node pair system into a ring data structure of the SONET system if routing the demand was successful.