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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2016
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Jatin Sareen, New Delhi, IN;
Anand Kumar, New Dehli, IN;
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for automatically accommodating one or more connections associated with a network resource targeted for maintenance in a network include receiving a request identifying the network resource for the maintenance; responsive to the network resource carrying no traffic, blocking the network resource during the maintenance; and, responsive to the network resource carrying traffic, attempting local recovery on all connections of the traffic to move the connections off of the network resource based on action at the local node, and, for the connections unable to locally recover, performing a network action through a control plane in the network to move the connections unable to locally recover off of the network resource.