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Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2011

Filed:

Aug. 08, 2003
Applicants:

Swarup Acharya, New Providence, NJ (US);

Bhawna Gupta, Edison, NJ (US);

Pankaj Risbood, Roselle, NJ (US);

Anurag Srivastava, Roselle, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Swarup Acharya, New Providence, NJ (US);

Bhawna Gupta, Edison, NJ (US);

Pankaj Risbood, Roselle, NJ (US);

Anurag Srivastava, Roselle, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method for rerouting circuits on a SONET, SDH or similar ring without disrupting service. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a route design subsystem adapted to identify, for the circuits, alternative routes that are subject to an alignment constraint and increase an objective value associated with the ring and (2) a path migration subsystem, associated with the route design subsystem, adapted to determine a hitless migration sequence that allows the alternative routes to be employed.


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