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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2001
Applicant:
Claude M. Hurlocker, Raleigh, NC (US);
Inventor:
Claude M. Hurlocker, Raleigh, NC (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Alsthom Compagnie Generale D'Electricite, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
ATM path switched ring switching is based on a ring segment BIP. An ATM VP ring segment is defined as originating at an ATM VP ring input and terminating at an ATM VP ring output. A ring segment BIP is composed of the path BIP error counts of multiple SONET/SDH paths from the ring segment input to the ring segment output.