Bandwidth-on-demand systems and methods

A method of providing bandwidth-on-demand services, comprising:

• receiving a service request from a client device;
• identifying at least one service logic associated with said service request based on information contained in said service request;
• executing said at least one service logic to generate at least one command configured for execution by a new-generation optical transport network (NG-OTN);
• transmitting data representative of said at least one command to said NG-OTN;
• and
• executing said at least one command to invoke at least one intelligent control plane (ICP) capability and at least one new-generation synchronous optical network (NG-SONET) capability of said NG-OTN to implement said service request over said NG-OTN.

A method comprising:

• receiving a command sequence at a call-processing module of a source node of a next-generation optical transport network (NG-OTN);
• invoking an intelligent control plane process based on said command sequence;
• determining whether a new-generation synchronous optical network (NG-SONET) process is requested by said command sequence;
• invoking the NG-SONET process if it is determined that the NG-SONET process is requested by said command sequence;
• receiving a path management request from the intelligent control plane process at a second call-processing module, said second call-processing module being associated with a destination node of the NG-OTN;
• determining whether the NG-SONET process is requested by said path management request;
• and
• invoking the NG-SONET process based on said path management request if it is determined that the NG-SONET process is requested by said path management request.

A tangible computer-readable medium having instructions thereon for instructing a processor to perform steps comprising:

• receiving a service request from a client device;
• identifying at least one service logic associated with said service request based on information contained in said service request;
• executing said at least one service logic to generate at least one command configured for execution by a new-generation optical transport network (NG-OTN), said at least one command being configured to invoke, upon execution by said NG-OTN, at least one intelligent control plane (ICP) capability and at least one new-generation synchronous optical network (NG-SONET) capability of said NG-OTN to implement said service request over said NG-OTN;
• and
• transmitting data representative of said at least one command to said NG-OTN for execution of said at least one command by said NG-OTN.