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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2007
William Mcconnochie, Nepean, CA;
Andrew Dolganow, Kanata, CA;
Vinod Prabhu, Kanata, CA;
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A method of non-service affecting APS protection for MLPPP bundles on routing systems, and associated mechanism, including one or more of the following: specifying a working MLPPP bundle and a protection MLPPP bundle; specifying MLPPP parameters; associating the working MLPPP bundle and the protection MLPPP bundle with an APS circuit; bringing up an MLPPP session; changing an operational status of the working MLPPP bundle; synchronizing MLPPP state information between the working MLPPP bundle and the protection MLPPP bundle; and driving an operational status of the protection MLPPP bundle based on said changing the operational status of the working MLPPP bundle.