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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2013
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Masatake Miyabe, Kawasaki, JP;
FUJITSU LIMITED, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus serves as a node in a network on which plural working paths and plural protection paths for bypassing the plural working paths are set, where the plural protection paths share bandwidths allocated thereto. The apparatus includes a data plane unit functioning as an interface that transmits and receives data with a node in the network. The apparatus predicts a first working path having a highest probability that a failure is likely to occur, among the plural working paths, based on transmission qualities of the plural working paths. The apparatus beforehand sets, to the data plane unit, a setting value for a first protection path corresponding to the first working path, and validates the setting value set to the data plane unit, based on a request for activating the first protection path, when the first working path is switched to the first protection path.