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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2008
Applicants:
Stuart Goose, Berkeley, CA (US);
Minh Huynh, Davis, CA (US);
Raymond Rui-feng Liao, Herzogenaurach, DE;
Inventors:
Stuart Goose, Berkeley, CA (US);
Minh Huynh, Davis, CA (US);
Raymond Rui-Feng Liao, Herzogenaurach, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A telecommunications system including a plurality of switches defining an Ethernet ring; a plurality of virtual local area networks defined on the Ethernet ring, defining a number of virtual local area networks (VLANs) equal in number to the number of links; and a ring recovery system configured to recover from a link failure by rerouting traffic to a destination on the Ethernet ring via a VLAN not including a failed link.