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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2016
Applicant:
Alcatel-lucent Canada Inc., Ottawa, CA;
Inventors:
Michael Jhu, Ottawa, CA;
Abdur Rahman, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
ALCATEL LUCENT, Nozay, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/437 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0811 (2013.01); H04L 12/437 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method of determining, by a network manager, a failure in a ring communications network, including determining a plurality of ring segments within different services of a plurality of services using the ring communications network, determining that there are two or more link failures in the ring communications network, determining the ring segments where the two or more link failures are located, and indicating an interruption of one of the services when the two or more failed links are on different ring segments.