US Patent Issued to Ciena on Dec. 2 for "Auto-squelching optical traffic channels in an ASE-loaded system" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,525, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Auto-squelching optical traffic channels in an ASE-loaded system" was invented by Choudhury A. Al Sayeed (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, implemented in an optical line system, includes monitoring traffic channels of a plurality of traffic channels; determining one or more traffic channels of the plurality of traffic channels are problematic with respect to other traffic channels of the plurality of traffic channels; and squelching the one or more traffic channels and replacing the squelched one or more traffic channels with channel holder...