Pair routing between undersea fiber optic cables
AssigneeSubcom, LLC
InventorsLara Denise Garrett, Haifeng Li, Dmitriy Kovsh
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Abstract
An undersea fiber optic cable routing architecture including a branching unit coupled to three trunk cables capable of switching individual fibers in each fiber pair within a cable to either of the other two cables. The branching unit comprises a plurality of optical switches and a controller for receiving remote command signals and configuring the optical switches in accordance with the remote command signals.
Claims20
A computer implemented method, comprising:
- selecting, using at least one processor, one or more fiber pairs in a plurality of fiber pairs in one or more cables for routing of at least one transmission, the one or more cables connecting one or more transmission sites;
- assigning, using the at least one processor, at least one optical transmission path in one or more optical transmission paths to the selected one or more fiber pairs;
- forming, using the at least one processor, an optical pathway using the selected one or more fiber pairs and the assigned at least one optical transmission path;
- and
- transmitting, using the at least one processor, the at least one transmission using the optical pathway between the one or more transmission sites.
A system, comprising:
- a branching unit configured to be communicatively coupled to one or more transmission sites, the branching unit including one or more optical transmission paths;
- at least one controller communicatively coupled to the branching unit and including
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one non-transitory storage media storing instructions, that when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to
- select one or more fiber pairs in a plurality of fiber pairs in one or more cables for routing of at least one transmission, the one or more cables connecting one or more transmission sites;
- assign at least one optical transmission path in the one or more optical transmission paths to the selected one or more fiber pairs;
- form an optical pathway using the selected one or more fiber pairs and the assigned at least one optical transmission path;
- and
- transmit the at least one transmission using the optical pathway between the one or more transmission sites.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one programmable processor, cause the at least one programmable processor to perform operations comprising:
- selecting one or more fiber pairs in a plurality of fiber pairs in one or more cables for routing of at least one transmission, the one or more cables connecting one or more transmission sites;
- assigning at least one optical transmission path in one or more optical transmission paths to the selected one or more fiber pairs;
- forming an optical pathway using the selected one or more fiber pairs and the assigned at least one optical transmission path;
- and
- transmitting the at least one transmission using the optical pathway between the one or more transmission sites.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.