US Patent Issued to Ciena on Sept. 15 for "Automated validation for standalone line-site deployment" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,030, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Automated validation for standalone line-site deployment" was invented by Marc Desjardins (Ottawa) and Choudhury A. Al Sayeed (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for testing Optical Network Elements (ONEs) are provided. A process, according to one implementation, includes switching a first broadband switch of a remote ONE from a first output to a second output. The first output of the first broadband switch enables direct transmission to a line-out port configured for connection with a first fiber span of a pair of external fibe...