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Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 06, 2016
Applicant:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Inventors:

Darek Skalecki, Ottawa, CA;

Gerard Leo Swinkels, Ottawa, CA;

Assignee:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0668 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01); H04L 47/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for managing network connections may include identifying a network failure within a network comprising various network elements. The method may include selecting, in response to identifying the network failure and for the network elements, a subset of nodal maps from various nodal maps. The nodal maps may be stored on the network elements. The subset of nodal maps may describe various cross-connections of the nodal maps within a first end-to-end connection in the network. The method may include transmitting, in response to selecting the subset of nodal maps, various activation requests to trigger the network elements to implement the subset of nodal maps.


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