公开(公告)号：US07167444B1

公开(公告)日：2007-01-23

申请号：US09473953

申请日：1999-12-29

申请人： Thomas S Afferton

发明人： Thomas S Afferton

IPC分类号： H04L12/26

CPC分类号： H04L41/0663 ,  H04J3/085 ,  H04J2203/0042 ,  H04J2203/006 ,  H04J2203/0073 ,  H04L43/0811

摘要： A method for structuring SONET rings in a network is disclosed, along with a method for redirecting traffic among SONET rings when a fault causing traffic outage on a single SONET ring is detected. First, SONET rings are structured into “families” sharing common offices, with each family containing an additional “protection ring”. When a service-affecting alarm is detected in a SONET ring, it is determined whether there are any service alarms on a protection ring in the SONET ring family. It is also determined whether or not the protection ring is already in use. If the protection ring is not in use and no alarms are detected in the protection ring, the protection ring is marked as being in use. Traffic from the ring in which the service alarm is detected is then re-routed onto the protection ring. A method is also given for directing traffic back to the original SONET ring after the failure is repaired.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于在网络中构造SONET环的方法，以及当检测到在单个SONET环上导致业务中断的故障时，在SONET环中重定向流量的方法。 首先，SONET环被分为共同办公室的“家庭”，每个家庭都有一个额外的“保护环”。 当在SONET环中检测到业务影响告警时，确定SONET环系列中保护环上是否有任何业务告警。 还确定保护环是否已经在使用。 如果保护环未使用，并且保护环中没有检测到报警，则保护环被标记为正在使用。 来自检测到服务警报的环的流量然后被重新路由到保护环上。 还给出了在故障修复之后将流量引导回原始SONET环的方法。

公开(公告)号：US07570886B1

公开(公告)日：2009-08-04

申请号：US10798696

申请日：2004-03-11

申请人： Thomas S. Afferton ,  Martin Birk ,  Kenneth A. Duell ,  Hossein Eslambolchi ,  Kathleen A. Tse ,  Simon S. Zelingher

发明人： Thomas S. Afferton ,  Martin Birk ,  Kenneth A. Duell ,  Hossein Eslambolchi ,  Kathleen A. Tse ,  Simon S. Zelingher

IPC分类号： H04J14/00

CPC分类号： H04J14/0227 ,  H04J14/021 ,  H04J14/0212 ,  H04J14/0241 ,  H04J14/0284 ,  H04Q11/0062 ,  H04Q2011/0064

摘要： A network arrangement where traffic elements of network nodes are programmable. A traffic element comprises electrically controllable transceiver pool having one or more ports that are coupled to an electrically controllable optical director that has all-optical information communication paths. The transceiver pool has one or more customer connection points in addition to the one or more connection points that connect to the optical director, and is adapted to couple a signal from any of the customer connection points to the optical director, at a particular wavelength. The choices for the specific coupling within the optical director and of the wavelengths are specified by control signals that are applied to the transceiver pool and to the optical director.

摘要翻译： 网络节点网络节点可编程的网络布置。 业务元件包括电可控收发器池，其具有耦合到具有全光信息通信路径的电可控光导向器的一个或多个端口。 收发器池除了连接到光导向器的一个或多个连接点之外还具有一个或多个客户连接点，并且适于在特定波长处将来自任何客户连接点的信号耦合到光导向器。 在光导向器和波长内的特定耦合的选择由施加到收发器池和光导向器的控制信号指定。

公开(公告)号：US06452906B1

公开(公告)日：2002-09-17

申请号：US09137136

申请日：1998-08-20

申请人： Thomas S. Afferton ,  Sid Chaudhuri ,  Peter M. Dollard ,  Simon S. Zelingher

发明人： Thomas S. Afferton ,  Sid Chaudhuri ,  Peter M. Dollard ,  Simon S. Zelingher

IPC分类号： G01R3108

CPC分类号： H04J3/14 ,  H04J2203/006 ,  H04Q3/0075

摘要： An in-band fault detection and isolation system and method for networks such as Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH) networks. Fault detection may be quickly and efficiently performed by a network without requiring modification to any add/drop multiplexers (ADMs) and/or without the involvement of an external network management system (NMS). To accomplish this without violating SONET/SDH standards, a new signal, called a fault isolation signal in the path (FIS-P), is proposed. The FIS-P may be used in lieu of an AIS-P to support special applications on certain digital cross connect (DCS)-to-DCS path segments. Moreover, the present invention may be implemented such that the behavior, of path terminating equipment (PTE) is unaffected.

摘要翻译： 用于网络的带内故障检测和隔离系统和方法，例如同步光网络/同步数字体系（SONET / SDH）网络。 故障检测可以由网络快速有效地执行，而不需要修改任何分插复用器（ADM）和/或不参与外部网络管理系统（NMS）。 为了实现这一点而不违反SONET / SDH标准，提出了一种新的信号，称为路径中的故障隔离信号（FIS-P）。 可以使用FIS-P代替AIS-P，以支持某些数字交叉连接（DCS）到DCS路径段的特殊应用。 此外，本发明可以被实现为使得路径终端设备（PTE）的行为不受影响。

公开(公告)号：US06278689B1

公开(公告)日：2001-08-21

申请号：US09064410

申请日：1998-04-22

申请人： Thomas S. Afferton ,  John Lester Strand

发明人： Thomas S. Afferton ,  John Lester Strand

IPC分类号： H04L1226

CPC分类号： H04Q11/0062 ,  H04J14/0283 ,  H04J14/0284 ,  H04J14/0286 ,  H04J14/0289 ,  H04J14/0291 ,  H04Q2011/0081 ,  H04Q2011/009 ,  H04Q2011/0092

摘要： An alarm and restoration system (28) accomplishes restoration in a ring network (10l) by monitoring network traffic to detect the occurrence of a single failure arising from a failed optical service path (14i) and the occurrence of a double failure arising from a failed optical service path and an occupied optical protection path (16i). In case of a single failure, the alarm and restoration system (28) restores traffic in the network itself by routing traffic on a restoration path. In the even of a double failure, the alarm and restoration system (28) routes traffic from the failed ring network through an Optical Cross-Connect mesh (22) to transform the double failure into a single failure that can be restored in the network itself.

摘要翻译： 警报和恢复系统（28）通过监视网络流量来实现环网（101）中的恢复，以检测由故障的光服务路径（14i）引起的单个故障的发生，以及由故障引起的双重故障的发生 光学服务路径和占用的光学保护路径（16i）。 在单个故障的情况下，报警和恢复系统（28）通过在恢复路径上路由业务来恢复网络本身的业务。 在双重故障的情况下，报警和恢复系统（28）通过光交叉网格（22）路由故障环网的流量，将双重故障转换为网络本身可以恢复的单个故障 。