Path Routing in Mesh Optical Networks

Dr. Jean-Francois Labourdette is manager of system engineering at Tellium. He is responsible for all network element and network management system engineering activities. Before that he was manager of network routing and design, where he was responsible for Tellium's routing architecture and algorithms, network dimensioning, and design studies.

Dr. Eric Bouillet is principal engineer at Tellium. He works on the design of optical networks and optimization of light-path provisioning and fault restoration algorithms. Before joining Tellium, Eric was a member of the technical staff in the Mathematical Sciences Research Center in Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies, working in the areas of routing in ATM and optical networks.

Georgios Ellinas is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at City College of the City University of New York. Before joining City College, George was a senior network architect at Tellium Inc. In this role, he worked on light-path provisioning and fault restoration algorithms in optical mesh networks.

Ramu Ramamurthy is lead engineer in the Optical Switch Division at Ciena (Ciena's Optical Switch has been deployed in the worlds biggest optical mesh networks). At Ciena Ramu works on the design and development of Routing and Restoration algorithms and protocols for optical mesh networks. Before that he worked for Tellium, where Ramu was part of a team that implemented Tellium's routing and restoration algorithms for optical mesh networks. His work at Tellium has resulted in several patent applications, and he coauthored several widely referenced publications in leading journals and conferences.