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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2008
Hakki Cankaya, Dallas, TX (US);
Kamakshi Sridhar, Plano, TX (US);
Peter Roberts, Stittsville, CA;
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A diagnostic tool is provided for calculating the availability of multi-segment pseudowires within an internet protocol (IP)-based mobile backhaul network. A control message is transmitted from an originating node towards a destination node within the IP-based mobile backhaul network over a primary multi-segment pseudowire and a secondary multi-segment pseudowire. From the response messages received from intermediate nodes positioned between the network node and the destination node along the primary multi-segment pseudowire and the secondary multi-segment psuedowire, the originating node determines the identities of each of the intermediate nodes, and calculates a respective individual availability of the primary multi-segment pseudowire and the secondary multi-segment pseudowire.