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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2007
Man-tung T. Hsiao, Cupertino, CA (US);
Lisa H. Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Yung-ching Tseng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Man-Tung T. Hsiao, Cupertino, CA (US);
Lisa H. Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Yung-Ching Tseng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rajiv Goel, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Coriant Operations, Inc., Naperville, IL (US);
Abstract
A device having circuit bundles and a method of configuring the network device to provide resiliency and protection for network circuits. A circuit bundle provides the ability to group multiple circuits of the same type for resiliency/protection. There is an active virtual circuit that is selected based on a user configured priority value defining priority for carrying circuit traffic. When the active virtual circuit fails, alternative virtual circuits are selected to carry the circuit traffic, again based on user configured priority. Virtual circuits included in the circuit bundle can have different destinations, and include at least multipoint virtual circuits.