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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2010
Michael U. Bencheck, Richardson, TX (US);
Matthew W. Turlington, Richardson, TX (US);
Vincent A. Alesi, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
William Bjorkman, Odenton, MD (US);
Michael U. Bencheck, Richardson, TX (US);
Matthew W. Turlington, Richardson, TX (US);
Vincent A. Alesi, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
William Bjorkman, Odenton, MD (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An approach provides virtual circuit protection. Traffic is received at a network interface device configured to interface an Ethernet virtual circuit of a service provider transport network over a user network interface (UNI). The network interface device is configured as a demarcation point between a customer network and the service provider transport network. Circuit replication is performed over the virtual circuit to create a plurality of communication paths over the virtual circuit by assigning respective tags for independently switching the traffic over the communication paths. One of the communication paths is designated as a standby communication path.