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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2007
Daniel Getachew, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Kyle Dewayne Mcintosh, Roswell, GA (US);
Daniel Getachew, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Kyle DeWayne McIntosh, Roswell, GA (US);
Ciena Corporation, Linthicum, MD (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and system for the restoration of an optical mesh network subsequent to the simultaneous failing of a large number of network connections due to a transmission failure. The system and method increase the restoration speed of a large number of failed network connections through connection aggregation. The system and method provide that connection aggregation is the logical bundling of a plurality of network connections across a network span. By enabling the bundling of these individual network connections transported over a particular span or spans, a network operator manages the bundle as if it were one network connection. The method and system provide that other network links support these bundled connections when the network segment that a managed bundle is traversing fails.