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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2018
Applicant:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Inventors:

Marc Holness, Nepean, CA;

Ashesh Mishra, San Jose, CA (US);

Eric S. Davison, Peppard Common, GB;

Assignee:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/939 (2013.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/5025 (2013.01); G06F 11/0709 (2013.01); G06F 11/3409 (2013.01); H04L 43/08 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04L 49/354 (2013.01); H04L 49/555 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods of protection switching in a packet network based on signal/service degrade includes monitoring a packet network connection; determining performance of the packet network connection based on the monitoring; detecting the packet network connection has a signal/service degrade based on the determined performance, wherein the signal/service degrade is a condition where the packet network connection is operational, but the performance is experiencing a degradation; and, responsive to detection of the signal/service degrade, performing one or more of notifying nodes in the packet network and performing a protection switch at the packet layer based on the signal/service degrade. The performance can be a delay measurement. The delay measurement can be utilized to determine Frame Delay (FD), Frame Delay Range (FDR), and Inter-Frame Delay Variation (IFDV), and the degradation is when one or more of FD, FDR, and IFDV exceeds a threshold in a window.


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