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Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2012
Applicants:

Pradeep Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Kanwar Singh, Mountain View, CA (US);

Srikrishnan Venkataraman, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Pradeep Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Kanwar Singh, Mountain View, CA (US);

Srikrishnan Venkataraman, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for providing a Backup Label Switched Path for a specified Bypass Label Switch Path is disclosed. The method for providing a Backup Label Switched Path for a specified Bypass Label Switch Path includes establishing a Bypass LSP having an end-to-end path; obtaining the nodes traversed by the end-to-end path; generating a request to a path calculator which using the nodes provided on the end-to-end path calculates a path disjoint to those nodes; and signaling the calculated disjoint path as a Backup LSP for the Bypass LSP. The method for providing a Backup Label Switched Path for a specified Bypass Label Switch Path provides protection advantages over systems known in the art by providing capability for handling double failure scenarios.


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