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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2016
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Darek Skalecki, Ottawa, CA;
Gerard L. Swinkels, Ottawa, CA;
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for efficient prioritized restoration of services implemented in a node in a network utilizing a control plane include, responsive to detecting a fault on a link adjacent to the node, releasing higher priority services affected by the fault immediately via control plane signaling such that the higher priority services mesh restore; maintaining a list of the released higher priority services; tracking mesh restoration of the released higher priority services; and releasing lower priority services based on the tracking, subsequent to the immediate mesh restoration of the higher priority services.