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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/008 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/008 ;
Abstract
A device for testing the operation of communication networks, specifically MS-SPRING optical fiber communication networks, which includes a traffic protection function. Modulation and measurement elements (A, BK, CHKR, CHKT) are provided, which elements can be driven by a processor (PC) to execute automatic test of the operation of the traffic protection function ( ) for one or more rings; ( ) of the optical fiber communication network.