Configurable frequency domain equalizer for dispersion compensation of multiple sub-carriers
Granted: April 18, 2017
Patent Number:
9628180
A system may include an optical transmitter and an optical receiver. The optical transmitter may generate optical signals associated with sub-carriers, and may provide the optical signals via an optical link. The optical receiver may receive the optical signals via the optical link, and may generate samples based on the optical signals. The samples may be associated with the sub-carriers. The optical receiver may combine the samples to form a time domain sample vector having a particular…
Management and control of software defined networking enabled open transport networks
Granted: April 11, 2017
Patent Number:
9621969
Apparatuses are disclosed including a node having a switch for communicating traffic from input interface to output interface; and a control module, located proximate to the input interface, output interface and switch, comprising a communication interface configured to connect to a third communication link external to the node and having a processor accessing network node configuration information and being configured to compute a path to a destination node through the output interface…
Multi layer, multi vendor, multi domain, applications for software defined networking enabled networks
Granted: April 11, 2017
Patent Number:
9621968
Systems and methods are disclosed including a computer system, comprising a software defined networking configuration manager having a processor computing and provisioning paths through an optical transport network for multiple switch nodes to be provisioned as head end nodes, the processor managing and interpreting data indicative of managed entities within the optical transport network to create a first network Sub-Network Connection (SNC) for a first customer, and a second network SNC…
Optical communication system
Granted: April 11, 2017
Patent Number:
9621274
Consistent with the present disclosure a transmitter is provided that transmits data in either a “quasi-DP-BPSK” (“QDP”) mode or in a DP-QPSK mode. In the QDP mode, data bits are transmitted as changes in phase between first and second phase states along a first axis or as changes in phase between third and fourth phase states along a second axis in the IQ plane. Although the transmitter outputs an optical signal that changes in phase between each of the four states, a sequence…
Power control of optical signals having different polarizations
Granted: April 4, 2017
Patent Number:
9614639
Consistent with an aspect of the present disclosure, an optical communication apparatus is provided that transmits a WDM signal including a plurality of optical channels, wherein each channel has a corresponding one of a plurality of wavelengths. Each of the plurality of optical channels includes optical signals having first (e.g., TE) and second (e.g., TM) polarizations. In one example, each polarized optical signal is modulated in accordance with an identifying tone. The optical…
Digital link viewer with paging for super-channels
Granted: March 28, 2017
Patent Number:
9608866
A device may receive optical network information associated with a plurality of super-channels. Each super-channel, of the plurality of super-channels, may include a plurality of optical channels transported as a single optical channel. The device may assign the plurality of super-channels to a plurality of sets of super-channels. The device may receive a request for a subset of the optical network information associated with a set of super-channels of the plurality of sets of…
Efficient processing of high data rate signals with a configurable frequency domain equalizer
Granted: March 21, 2017
Patent Number:
9602219
An optical system includes an optical transmitter configured to modulate an optical signal to carry data, associated with an optical channel, via multiple sub-carriers in a quantity greater than four. The optical system further includes an optical receiver configured to demodulate the optical signal to recover the data from the multiple sub-carriers.
Controlling an optical transmitter that supports multiple modulation formats and baud rates
Granted: February 21, 2017
Patent Number:
9577761
A device receives a modulation format and a baud rate for transmission of an optical signal, and generates optical signals based on the modulation format and the baud rate. The device generates quadrature-delay-interferometer signals based on the optical signal, the modulation format, and the baud rate, and generates a particular optical signal with a particular wavelength for the modulation format and the baud rate. The device determines whether a point of the…
Frequency domain coded modulation with polarization interleaving for fiber nonlinearity mitigation in digital sub-carrier coherent optical communication systems
Granted: January 24, 2017
Patent Number:
9553675
An optical transmitter may receive and encode a first group of bits into first encoded data and second encoded data. The optical transmitter may supply a first sub-carrier carrying a first symbol and a second sub-carrier carrying a second symbol. The first symbol and the second symbol may be based on the first encoded data and the second encoded data, respectively, such that the first sub-carrier has a first polarization state comprising first and second polarization components, and the…
Systems, apparatus, and methods for non-blocking switch networks
Granted: January 17, 2017
Patent Number:
9548944
A switch network may include a plurality of switch stages arranged in sequential stages. The plurality of switch stages may include a first switch stage connected to a plurality of inputs, a second switch stage connected to each switch in the first switch stage, a third switch connected to each switch in the second switch stage, a fourth switch stage connected to each of the switches in the third switch stage, and a fifth switch stage connected to a plurality of outputs and each switch…
Efficient storage architecture for low-density parity-check decoding
Granted: January 10, 2017
Patent Number:
9543984
A low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoder may comprise a shift register configured to receive LDPC coded data, perform an iteration associated with decoding the LDPC coded data, and provide a result of performing the iteration. The shift register may include a quantity of lanes corresponding to a quantity of data words received by the shift register at a particular clock cycle, a quantity of stages corresponding to a quantity of clock cycles needed to perform the iteration, a quantity of…
Arbitrary grid wavelocking using digitally generated out-of-band tones
Granted: January 3, 2017
Patent Number:
9537577
A device may insert a set of tones into a transmitter signal at a set of frequency offsets from a set of transmitter channels associated with a set of transmitter channel wavelengths. The set of transmitter channels may include a first channel being associated with a first quantity of bandwidth and a second channel associated with a second quantity of bandwidth. The first quantity of bandwidth may be different from the second quantity of bandwidth. The device may repeatedly adjust the…
Optical fiber track system and method for using thereof
Granted: December 13, 2016
Patent Number:
9519117
A track system comprises a track having a first end, a second end, and defining one or more first channels extending from the first to the second end of the track for accommodating one or more optical fibers therein. The track is attachable to a support and defines a first plane. The track system also comprises a ramp having a first end, a second end, and defining one or more second channels extending from the first end of the ramp to the second end of the ramp for accommodating the one…
Code design and high-throughput decoder architecture for layered decoding of a low-density parity-check code
Granted: November 8, 2016
Patent Number:
9490845
A low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoder may receive LDPC coded data. The LDPC decoder may perform a decoding iteration associated with decoding the LDPC coded data. The decoding iteration may be performed by processing a group of layers. Each layer may include a corresponding set of check node elements, and may be processed by causing each check node element, of the set of check node elements corresponding to the layer, to update a set of variable node elements, connected to the check…
Adjusting carrier spacing in a channel
Granted: November 1, 2016
Patent Number:
9485049
An optical system may include optical transmitters to provide respective optical signals. Each of the respective optical signals may provide one or more carriers in an optical channel. The optical channel may include multiple carriers associated with the respective optical signals. First and second carriers, of the multiple carriers, may have a particular carrier space width. The particular carrier space width may include a frequency error associated with one or more optical signals of…
Optical layer status exchange over OSC-OAM method for ROADM networks
Granted: November 1, 2016
Patent Number:
9485015
A method for receiving, by circuitry of an optical node adapted for wavelength multiplexing and wavelength switching, a signal over OSC comprising overhead information indicative of status of at least one of an optical layer in an OTN; wherein the signal utilizes OC-N frame format comprising a first STS frame, a second STS frame, and a third STS frame, the STS frames having a format wherein the information is assigned to a number of bits designated for OAM information, wherein the bits…
Optical link protection using common modulation of multiple combined wavelengths
Granted: November 1, 2016
Patent Number:
9485012
An optical transmitter may include one or more lasers configured to provide a primary optical signal having a primary wavelength and a secondary optical signal having a secondary wavelength to a modulator via corresponding first and second modulator inputs. The modulator may combine the primary and secondary optical signals into a combined optical signal and modulate, with an electrical signal, the combined optical signal to provide a modulated optical signal to an optical filter. The…
OTU4 one level de-multiplexing spatial framer for G.709 optical transport networks
Granted: October 25, 2016
Patent Number:
9479849
A method may include generating, by a device, a set of bit masks associated with locating frame alignment signal (FAS) data. The set of bit masks may be utilized by multiple framer circuits associated with identifying a start of one more frames of multiple lower order Optical channel Data Unit (ODU) flows multiplexed in a higher order ODU flow. The method may include detecting, by the device, the FAS data at a particular byte location in a particular lower order ODU flow, of the multiple…
Rapid automation front-end framework library and executable graphic user interface testing system and method
Granted: September 27, 2016
Patent Number:
9454463
A computer system comprising a display, one or more computer readable medium storing a computer application comprising computer executable code for creating a graphical user interface, one or more processors receiving and executing the computer executable code to provide the graphical user interface on the display, the computer readable medium also storing a testing application comprising computer executable code for activating the graphical user interface, the testing application…
Assignment of wavelengths to optical signals in an optical network
Granted: September 13, 2016
Patent Number:
9445166
A method may include determining, by a device, a wavelength identifier graph corresponding to an optical network based on a set of lightpath conflicts, for a set of optical signals, associated with a set of links and a set of nodes of the optical network. One or more optical signals may be associated with transmission via a super-channel. The method may further include selectively assigning, by the device, a wavelength identifier to an optical signal, of the set of optical signals, based…
