Abstract: Dynamic optical wavebands are disclosed that allow a plurality of user streams having a common destination node to be positioned in a substantially adjacent non-overlapping manner on a spectrum for treatment as a routable entity. Each waveband has an associated center wavelength and spectral extent. The plurality of user streams can optionally be encrypted using a corresponding cipher. Wavebands that are received by a network node are filtered so that individual wavebands can be isolated, if necessary. For example, individual wavebands can be switched to an appropriate output node for forwarding in the optical network. In addition, the center wavelength and spectral extent of a waveband can be converted, if necessary, to position the waveband substantially spectrally adjacent to another waveband sharing a common path portion. In this manner, the substantially spectrally adjacent wavebands can be treated as an aggregated waveband for the common portion of a path.

Abstract: A system and method, operable with a wireless communication cell having at least one aperture array, for brokering wireless communication resources. In one embodiment, the system includes a virtual sector broker configured to generate, in response to a resource request, an allocation request based on available wireless communication resources of the cell subjected to a brokering process and an internal policy broker database associated with the virtual sector broker. The system further includes a virtual sector formation unit configured to employ the at least one aperture array to provide dynamic virtual sectorization of the available wireless communication resources in response to the allocation request.