Cisco Technology, Inc.

Daniel Cauchy

Krishna Sundaresan

Mahesh Chellappa

Chandrasekar Krishnamurthy

A method is described that involves updating an understanding of an ATM PNNI network after the reception of PTSE information. The PTSE information has SIG information that describes bandwidth which has been allocated to specific priority levels of a bandwidth resource. The bandwidth resource is within the ATM PNNI network. Then, determining a path through the network for a requested connection. The path is determined in light of the updated understanding. The requested connection has a priority level, wherein the path may result in one or more connections being dropped in order to allow bandwidth for the requested connection. Each of the dropped connections has a lower priority level than the priority level of the requested connection.

Method and apparatus for true priority based connection establishment within a PNNI ATM network

A first route is associated with a first channel of two or more channels in a first dense wavelength division multiplex (DWDM) link. A second route is associated with a second channel of the two or more channels in the first dense wavelength division multiplex (DWDM) link. A third route is associated with a third channel of two or more channels in a second dense wavelength division multiplex (DWDM) link. The first route, the second route and the third route provide similar connections. The first DWDM link is different from the second DWDM link. The third route is preselected as an alternate diverse route for a connection through the first route.

Method and system for diverse route computation

A method for automatically reconfiguring a soft permanent virtual circuit (SPVC) source endpoint in a PNNI ATM network, in response to an address change at a destination endpoint, by encoding the address change information in a SIG field in a PNNI topology state element within a PNNI topology state packet.

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