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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2009
Applicants:
Kin Yee Wong, Ottawa, CA;
Peter Roberts, Stittsville, CA;
Inventors:
Kin Yee Wong, Ottawa, CA;
Peter Roberts, Stittsville, CA;
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention is directed to providing a method and system for monitoring and managing from a network management entity, timing-over-packet synchronization performance in a packet switching network having multiple network nodes. The network management entity determines a physical topology and a synchronization topology of the network and monitors synchronization performance by collecting virtual path information.