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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2013
Applicant:
Adtran, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Inventor:
Sean M. Osborne, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Assignee:
Adtran Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In accordance with a non-limiting example, a system and method minimizes collisions between transmitted connectivity fault management (CFM) packets. Maintenance association endpoints are formed from a plurality of network switch elements to form a maintenance association. The clocks between each network switch element within the maintenance association are synchronized. A unique transmission window is assigned to each maintenance association endpoint as part of the maintenance association. A respective CFM packet is transmitted as a continuity check message (CCM) within the unique transmission window.