| US 7,352,692 B1 | ||
| Resource reservation scheme for path restoration in an optical network | ||
| Ali Najib Saleh, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (US); H. Michael Zadikian, McKinney, Tex. (US); Zareh Baghdasarian, La Canada, Calif. (US); and Vahid Parsi, Sherman Oaks, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on May 16, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/858,743. | ||
| Application 09/858743 is a continuation in part of application No. 09/232397, filed on Jan. 15, 1999, granted, now 6,856,627. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—216 [370/389; 370/392; 370/395.43; 370/401; 370/465] | 131 Claims |
| 1. A method comprising:
selecting a class of service of a plurality of classes of service;
assigning said class of service to a virtual path;
dynamically reserving resources for said virtual path in a mesh optical network comprising a plurality of nodes coupled by
a plurality of optical links in a mesh topology, wherein
said dynamically reserving said resources comprises:
allocating resources of each node in a set of nodes in said plurality of nodes in response to an allocation request, and
identifying a physical path between a first node and a second node of said optical network;
said physical path is comprised in said set of nodes; and
said virtual path is provisioned on said physical path.
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