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(19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2008/0212963 A1 Fortin et al. (54)
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NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM WITH DISTRIBUTED DATA ARCHITECTURE
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Guy Claude Fortin, Ottawa (CA); Markus Messenschmidt, Ottawa
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(CA); Jeffrey Kenneth Emery, Ottawa (CA); Hock Gin Lim, Green Brook, NJ (US); Ralph Stemmer, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US)
(57) ABSTRACT A network operating system NOS for an agile optical network with a plurality of mesh interconnected switching nodes, manages the network using an obj ect-oriented network infor mation model. The model is common to all applications
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requiring the data stored in the network managed information
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base. The core model can be expanded for serving speci?c application areas. The NOS is organized in layers, at the optical module level, connection level and network level. A
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distributed topology server DTS organizes the physical, logi cal and topological data de?ning all network entities as man
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aged Obj eels MO and topology Objects TO for Constructing a
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complete network view. The network information model associates a network element NE information model, speci ?ed by managed objects MO and a topological information
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abstract speci?c NE data that de?ne network implementation .
details and do not include an to 010 ical data, while the TOs
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lished within the network, and do not include any NE data.
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The models are associated in a minimal number of points to construct the model of a trial in response to a connection
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