US Patent Issued to Ciena on March 24 for "Bundling capacity changes in channel holder based optical links" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,300, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Bundling capacity changes in channel holder based optical links" was invented by Choudhury A. Al Sayeed (Stittsville, Canada), David C. Bownass (Ottawa) and Yanping Xu (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of capacity changes in an optical network having a plurality of optical sections include, responsive to a request for a capacity change for a plurality of channels, bundling the plurality of channels into different steps such that all of the plurality of channels are assigned to a step of the different steps; and causing implementation of th...