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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Adva Optical Networking SE, Meiningen OT Dreissigacker, DE;
Inventors:
Cornelius Fuerst, Fuerstenfeldbruck, DE;
Wayne Sankey, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
ADVA OPTICAL NETWORKING SE, Meiningen-Dreissigacker, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/06 (2009.01); H04B 10/40 (2013.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 25/49 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/06 (2013.01); H04B 10/40 (2013.01); H04L 1/0043 (2013.01); H04L 25/4908 (2013.01); H04L 1/0045 (2013.01); H04L 1/0078 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus for monitoring a performance of an Ethernet data stream, EDS, said apparatus comprising: an evaluation unit adapted to evaluate sync headers and block type fields of line code vectors of the Ethernet data stream, EDS; and a counter unit adapted to increment at least one performance counter in response to the evaluated sync header and the evaluated block type field of each line code vector of the Ethernet data stream, EDS.