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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2008
Eisaku Touma, Kawasaki, JP;
Eisaku Touma, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A redundancy method in which a network is made redundant with a working path and a protection path. The method includes transmitting a working system supervising frame and a protection system supervising frame from a switch apparatus on transmission side to the working path and the protection path; passing, by a switch apparatus on reception side, the working system supervising frame received from the working path as well as abolishing the protection system supervising frame and passing the protection system supervising frame received from the protection path as well as abolishing the working system supervising frame; and performing a connectivity check for the working path and the protection path by using the passed working system supervising frame and the passed protection system supervising frame.