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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1996
Cheng C Chen, Carrollton, TX (US);
MCI Communications Corporation, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method of processing ATM service requests to a SONET network, wherein the customer requesting the service has specified certain ATM quality of service parameters, by mapping measured SONET performance parameters to predicted ATM quality of service parameters for an end-to-end path or connection through the SONET network. The system compares the predicted ATM quality of service parameters with the specified ATM quality of service parameters. Whenever at least one of the expected ATM quality of service parameters is worse than the corresponding specified ATM quality of service parameter, the system rejects the path or connection. The system may then either test an alternate path through the network or not provide the service.