Nortel Networks Corporation

Brian Charles Turton

Mark Bentall

A transmission system is provided for a power source to transfer power to equipment housed within a Faraday cage. The transmission system transfers energy along a non-conductive path yet remains in conductive contact with the Faraday cage. This prevents EMI disturbing electrical power provided within the Faraday cage and damaging equipment housed within the cage. The transmission system enables mains power to be transmitted to equipment housed within the Faraday cage without the need to provide conventional electric filters. The performance of the Faraday cage in shielding electromagnetic radiation is not compromised. Nor is the ability of the Faraday cage to shield electromagnetic radiation generated by communications equipment within the cage compromised.

Power transmission system for a Faraday cage power source

For restoration of a network a plurality of possible alternative routes are determined. Messages are passed between nodes along the alternative routes to determine a spare capacity of each link in the alternative routes. An alternative route is selected from the possible alternative routes on the basis of a database of the determined link spare capacities for each of the possible alternative routes, built up at a chooser node at one side of the failed part of the network.

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South Glam, United Kingdom

Brian Charles Turton