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Supporting OAM on protecting connections in shared mesh protection environment

US8908533B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Infinera Corp. · US

Inventors

Ping Pan · San Jose, US
Rajan Rao · Cupertino, US
Biao Lu · Cupertino, US
Sri Mohana Satya Srinivas Singamsetty · Cupertino, US
Ann Gui · Cupertino, US
Maneesh Jain · Santa Clara, US
Anthony Jorgenson · Fremont, US
Jan Bialkowski · San Jose, US
Khuzema Pithewan · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 29, 2011
Grant date	Dec 9, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 27, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L45/50
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for detecting the liveliness and synchronizing the control-plane and data-plane on protecting connections in a shared mesh network environment through methods for probing the protecting connection conditions by sending in-band messages; and synchronization of control plane and data plane by using LSP-ping messages on the protecting connections.

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