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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Duane R. Remein, Raleigh, NC (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/00 ;
Abstract
A method for increasing the bandwidth of a uni-directional path switched SONET ring network by sacrificing protection of the information carried on the ring network. The method alters the way in which information is added into the ring at a node and how its is dropped at other nodes on the ring. Information added into the ring is added into only one of the two redundant paths of the SONET ring network, leaving the remaining path available to carry different, non-redundant information. Information dropped from the ring is also re-transmitted to down-stream nodes on the ring.