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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2007
Filed:
May. 23, 2002
Rong C. Fang, Oak Hill, VA (US);
Rong C. Fang, Oak Hill, VA (US);
Tellabs Operations, Inc., Naperville, IL (US);
Abstract
A single, normally inactive, protection ring, provides protection against a working channel failure in a fiber optic ring network. The protection channel is established and put into operation by a series of steps that are triggered by the detection of signal degradation or loss of light from one transponder by the other transponder. Each node reacts to a failure of another node in substantially the same way. Incoming traffic from external sources is rerouted from a working input-output interface to a protection interface, to establish a path for the protection signal. Signals are sent between nodes enabling the two nodes to resume communication. Only the portion of the protection ring between nodes is placed into service.