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AssigneeXtera Communications, Inc.
InventorsGerhard Willem van Lochem, Stephen Desbruslais, David Winterburn
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The system-level control of a repeatered optical communications system. In a repeatered optical communications system, two terminals are optically coupled via an optical communications span having one or more repeaters. One of the terminals may perform the control by monitoring quality metrics of optical signals received over the communication span. Based on this monitoring, certain adjustments are determined to be performed, and the repeater controllers of the respective optical repeaters are instructed to perform the adjustments. In some case, the optical repeater adjustments cannot be made without impacting the performance of the optical signals traveling in the opposite direction. In that case, the system-level control uses monitored quality metrics from both terminals to determine the adjustments to be made. The system level adjustment may be automated by software or the like thereby making optimization of the optical communications span easier.
A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable storage media having thereon computer-executable instructions that are structured such that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method for controlling a repeatered optical communications system having an optical communication span optically coupling a first terminal and a second terminal via a plurality of optical repeaters, the method comprising:
A method for a first terminal controlling a repeatered optical communications system having an optical communication span optically coupling a first terminal and a second terminal via a plurality of optical repeaters, the method comprising:
An optical communications system comprising:
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