Systems and methods for achieving best effort home route capacity on protection paths during optical restoration

A node comprising:

• an optical modem configured to connect to an optical network and to provide a photonic service in the optical network, wherein the optical modem is capable of supporting variable capacity;
• and
• a controller communicatively connected to the optical modem and configured to
• detect a fault or receive notification of the fault on a current route of the photonic service while the photonic service operates at a first capacity of the variable capacity, and
• cause a change of the optical modem to a second capacity of the variable capacity, subsequent to the fault, wherein the optical modem is configured to switch to a restoration route while the optical modem operates at the second capacity.

A node comprising:

• an optical modem configured to connect to an optical network and to provide a photonic service in the optical network, wherein the optical modem is capable of supporting variable capacity;
• and
• a controller communicatively connected to the optical modem and configured to
• detect a fault or receive notification of the fault on a current route of the photonic service while the photonic service operates at a first capacity of the variable capacity,
• subsequent to a switch to a restoration route, monitor operation on the restoration route, and
• cause a change of the optical modem to a second capacity of the variable capacity based on the monitored operation on the restoration route.

A method comprising:

• detecting a fault or receive notification of the fault on a current route of a photonic service while the photonic service operates at a first capacity, wherein the photonic service is provided via an optical modem capable of supporting variable capacity;
• changing the optical modem to a second capacity of the variable capacity, subsequent to the fault;
• and
• switching the optical modem to a restoration route while the optical modem operates at the second capacity.