Facility restoration for telecommunications networks
    1.
    发明授权
    Facility restoration for telecommunications networks 失效
    电信网络设备恢复

    公开(公告)号:US5459716A

    公开(公告)日:1995-10-17

    申请号:US228616

    申请日:1994-04-15

    IPC分类号: H04J3/14 H04Q3/00 H04Q3/66

    摘要: A method for rapidly restoring disrupted communications services between nodes of a network following a loss of service due to a circuit outage such as may occur, for example, as a result of an optical fiber cable break. The method is operable, however, irrespective of the transmission technology. Treating the telecommunications traffic as a commodity, a multicommodity model is developed using a measure of the commodities desired to be restored between network nodes and the capacity available for restoral in spare and impacted edges of the network. Action variables are established by use of representational "dummy nodes pairs" interconnected by "action edges." A multicommodity algorithm is applied to the model and to the decision variables to determine reroutes and actions to be taken within nodes of the network to effect the restoral reroutes. Preferably, the process is carried out in real time or near real time by computing apparatus and such that the outage is located via a control network and whereby the instructions for restoral actions are returned to the network nodes. Operation also preferably takes into consideration the priority of the telecommunications commodity to be restored and the relative costs of restoral so that higher priority commodities are restored first at lowest cost.

    摘要翻译: 由于诸如由于光纤电缆断裂而导致的电路中断而导致的服务丢失之后,网络节点之间的通信服务的迅速恢复的方法。 然而,该方法可操作,而不管传输技术如何。 将电信业务作为商品进行处理,利用对网络节点之间需要恢复的商品的量度和可用于网络备用和受影响边缘的可用容量来开发多业务模型。 动作变量通过使用由“动作边缘”互连的表示“虚拟节点对”来建立。 多模式算法应用于模型和决策变量,以确定在网络节点内采取的路由和动作以实现重新路由。 优选地,该过程由计算设备实时或接近实时地执行,并且使得经由控制网络定位中断,并且由此将恢复动作的指令返回给网络节点。 经营活动还优先考虑到要恢复的电信商品的优先次序和恢复的相对成本,以便以最低的成本首先恢复优先级较高的商品。

    Method and apparatus for identifying restoral routes in a network
    2.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for identifying restoral routes in a network 失效
    用于识别网络中的维修路线的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US6075766A

    公开(公告)日:2000-06-13

    申请号:US753553

    申请日:1996-11-26

    摘要: A method and apparatus analyzes network topology data of a telecommunications network. Each physically diverse path in the network is assigned a unique path identifier. Trunks along each path, and ports at nodes through which the trunks are routed, are assigned the corresponding path identifier. If a trunk fails, the ports facing the point of failure issue alarms that include the corresponding path identifier for the trunk. A computer or other system compares the path identifiers of the alarming trunks with the path identifiers of restoral routes, such as other trunks extending between end nodes at opposite ends of the failure. Only those trunks having path identifiers differing from the path identifier of the alarming trunk are selected as possible restoral routes for the failure.

    摘要翻译: 一种方法和装置分析电信网络的网络拓扑数据。 为网络中的每个物理上不同的路径分配唯一的路径标识符。 沿着每个路径的中继线以及中继线路由的节点的端口被分配相应的路径标识符。 如果中继线发生故障,面向故障点的端口发出包含中继线对应路径标识符的警报。 计算机或其他系统将报警中继线的路径标识符与恢复路由的路径标识符进行比较,例如在故障相对端的端节点之间延伸的其他中继线。 选择具有不同于报警中继线的路径标识符的路径标识符的那些中继线作为故障的可能的修复路由。

    Automated recovery of telecommunication network elements
    3.
    发明授权
    Automated recovery of telecommunication network elements 失效
    电信网元自动恢复

    公开(公告)号:US5420917A

    公开(公告)日:1995-05-30

    申请号:US164496

    申请日:1993-12-09

    申请人: Richard L. Guzman

    发明人: Richard L. Guzman

    IPC分类号: H04M3/22 H04Q3/00 H04M3/00

    摘要: A method of automating restoration of service to damaged or destroyed telecommunication network elements. The method automates the restoration process by employing several operations support systems to collect data about the damaged network elements and to generate and implement a restoration plan. The restoration plan is executed automatically on a disaster recovery vehicle as a replacement for the damaged network elements. The method also assures the resumption of normal business planning by updating engineering and operations support databases.

    摘要翻译: 一种使损坏或破坏的电信网络元件自动恢复服务的方法。 该方法通过采用多个操作支持系统来收集关于损坏的网络元件的数据并生成并实现恢复计划来自动恢复过程。 恢复计划在灾难恢复车辆上自动执行,以代替损坏的网络元件。 该方法还通过更新工程和操作支持数据库来确保恢复正常的业务规划。

    System for restoration of communications networks

    公开(公告)号:US5706276A

    公开(公告)日:1998-01-06

    申请号:US435030

    申请日:1995-05-04

    IPC分类号: H04Q3/00 H04L1/22

    摘要: Difficulties with prior disrupted communications restoration systems are overcome by employing for each node of a communications network a restoration processor in which predetermined functions of the restoration process are managed by respective ones of a plurality of manager modules. The manager modules are arranged to be directly interconnected only with a so-called restoration manager that coordinates the operations of the modules and provides for their interconnection needs. In a preferred embodiment, four manager modules, a) a user interface manager module, b) a digital cross-connect system (DCS) manager module, c) a distributed communications manager module and d) a core algorithm manager module, are interconnected and coordinated by the restoration manager. Additional robustness to the restoration process is provided by way of enhancements to the functionality of the core algorithm manager module. These enhancements include: a) improved glare processing (resolution of contention for a particular resource), b) "broadcast" of takedown messages, c) elimination of the need for time-outs during automatic restoration, d) a "peek ahead" routine that immediately takes down a needed resource that is already on a list to be taken down, e) use of a "minimax factor" and f) a "quick fix" technique for use in cases of limited failure of circuits between two nodes. The restoration process can also be cascaded so that it sequentially restores one level at a time, the levels being defined by the hierarchy of digital transmission rates employed in the network.

    Apparatus for managing an element manager for a telecommunications switch
    5.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for managing an element manager for a telecommunications switch 失效
    用于管理电信交换机的元件管理器的装置

    公开(公告)号:US5483585A

    公开(公告)日:1996-01-09

    申请号:US194353

    申请日:1994-02-10

    IPC分类号: H04M3/22 H04Q3/00 H04M3/42

    摘要: A public telecommunications system includes a local exchange 10, an element manger 11 for managing the exchange 10 and a configuration manager 12 for managing the element manager 11. The element manager 11 is located with the exchange 10 and the configuration manger 12 is situated at a distant location. The exchange 10, element manager 11 and configuration manager 12 are connected by communication links 18, 19. In order to provide a new or existing customer with basic telephony services or one or more supplementary services such as call forwarding, the configuration manager 12 sends an appropriate set of requests to the element manager 11. If one or more of the requests are not successfully performed in the element manager 11, the configuration manger 12 sends further requests to the element manager 11 to cancel the requests which have been successfully performed and thereby return the element manager 11 to its original configuration.

    摘要翻译: 公共电信系统包括本地交换机10,用于管理交换机10的元件管理器11和用于管理元件管理器11的配置管理器12.元件管理器11位于交换机10处,并且配置管理器12位于 遥远的位置。 交换机10,元件管理器11和配置管理器12通过通信链路18,19连接。为了向新客户或现有客户提供基本电话服务或一个或多个辅助服务,例如呼叫转移,配置管理器12发送 对元素管理器11的适当的请求集合。如果在元素管理器11中没有成功地执行一个或多个请求,则配置管理器12向元素管理器11发送另外的请求以取消已成功执行的请求 将元素管理器11返回到其原始配置。

    Network control method and apparatus therefor
    6.
    发明授权
    Network control method and apparatus therefor 失效
    网络控制方法及其设备

    公开(公告)号:US4920529A

    公开(公告)日:1990-04-24

    申请号:US155416

    申请日:1988-02-12

    摘要: A network management system prepares an optimum configuration table corresponding to a failure of a transit trunk and distributes the same to each TDM, and thereby the optimization of reconfiguration of a high-speed digital network is enabled.User data are transmitted and received in accordance with route information table defined beforehand in each TDM. On the other hand, network management information is sent to all trunks other than a receiving trunk for the managing information when flooding is designated by the network management system. Accordingly, the management information can be sent without fail if any route to the TDM to be supplied with the management information exists. When source-routing is designated, the communications of the managing information can be implemented efficiently, since the route is set by the management information.Moreover, each packet exchanger provides route identifiers defined individually for correspondence to local trunks, and transit route information set in each packet is recorded by using the route identifiers of each packet exchanger. Route information determined in the flooding process is then used in subsequent source-routed communications.

    摘要翻译: 网络管理系统准备与传输中继的故障相对应的最佳配置表,并将其分配给每个TDM,从而实现高速数字网络的重新配置的优化。 根据TDM中预先定义的路由信息​​表,发送和接收用户数据。 另一方面,当由网络管理系统指定洪泛时,将网络管理信息发送到除了用于管理信息的接收中继线以外的所有干线。 因此,如果存在要提供管理信息的TDM的任何路由,则可以毫不费力地发送管理信息。 当指定源路由时,可以有效地实现管理信息的通信,因为路由是由管理信息设置的。 此外,每个分组交换机提供单独定义的路由标识符,用于对应于本地中继,并且通过使用每个分组交换机的路由标识符来记录在每个分组中设置的传输路由信息。 然后在洪泛过程中确定的路由信息​​用于后续的源路由通信。

    Fault restoration control method and it's apparatus in a communication network
    7.
    发明授权
    Fault restoration control method and it's apparatus in a communication network 失效
    故障恢复控制方法及其在通信网络中的装置

    公开(公告)号:US06304346B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-10-16

    申请号:US09022004

    申请日:1998-02-11

    IPC分类号: H04B1000

    摘要: A method for restoration from a fault in a communication network formed by interconnecting a plurality of nodes including at least one set of node equipment each including a line terminal equipment and an optical cross-connect equipment, via a plurality of transmission lines using optical fibers. According to this method for restoration from a fault, if a line terminal equipment of at least one set of node equipment has detected a fault in an optical fiber under communication, it gives a command functioning as trigger for optical fiber change-over to an optical cross-connect equipment included in the node equipment. Upon receiving this command functioning as the trigger, the optical cross-connect equipment exchanges change-over control information indicating optical switch setting situation between it and an optical cross-connect equipment included in another node equipment, and forms a restoration route.

    摘要翻译: 一种通过使用光纤通过多条传输线将包括至少一组包括线路终端设备和光交叉连接设备的至少一组节点设备的多个节点互连的通信网络中的故障恢复的方法。 根据用于从故障恢复的方法,如果至少一组节点设备的线路终端设备已经检测到在通信中的光纤中的故障,则其给出用作光纤转换的触发的命令到光学 交叉连接设备包括在节点设备中。 在接收到用作触发器的命令时,光交叉连接设备交换指示光开关设置情况的切换控制信息,并且包括在另一节点设备中的光交叉设备之间,形成恢复路由。

    Fault tolerant service-providing apparatus for use in a
telecommunications network
    8.
    发明授权
    Fault tolerant service-providing apparatus for use in a telecommunications network 失效
    用于电信网络的容错服务提供设备

    公开(公告)号:US5910984A

    公开(公告)日:1999-06-08

    申请号:US553632

    申请日:1995-12-06

    申请人: Colin Low

    发明人: Colin Low

    摘要: A telecommunications network architecture is known comprising a switching system for effecting basic call processing to set up, maintain and clear calls, and service-providing means (SPA) communicating with said switching system for providing services additional to said basic call processing. Due to the high availability requirements typically placed on telecommunications networks, the service providing means will generally need to be of a fault-tolerant design. A fault tolerant architecture is provided that relies on the checkpointing to a reliable store of state data for services currently being provided from first service logic of the service-providing means; should the first service logic fail, a second service logic is brought into operation and provided with required state data on current services from the backup store. To reduce the amount of checkpointing of data by the first logic, state data is only checkpointed when the corresponding call has reached a stable phase, the loss of a call during setup being much more acceptable than after it is been established.

    摘要翻译: PCT No.PCT / GB94 / 01257 Sec。 371 1995年12月6日第 102(e)日期1995年12月6日PCT提交1994年6月10日PCT公布。 第WO94 / 30027号公报 日期1994年12月22日一种已知电信网络架构,其包括用于实现基本呼叫处理以建立,维护和清除呼叫的交换系统,以及与所述交换系统通信的服务提供装置(SPA),用于提供附加到所述基本呼叫 处理。 由于通常放置在电信网络上的高可用性要求,服务提供装置通常需要具有容错设计。 提供了一种容错架构,其依赖于对服务提供装置的第一服务逻辑提供的服务的状态数据的可靠存储进行检查点; 如果第一个服务逻辑出现故障,则第二个服务逻辑被启动并从备份存储提供关于当前服务的所需状态数据。 为了减少第一逻辑的数据检查点数量,当对应的呼叫已经达到稳定阶段时,状态数据仅被检查点,在建立过程中的呼叫丢失比建立之后更为可接受。

    Optical network using multiplexed payload and OAM signals
    9.
    发明授权
    Optical network using multiplexed payload and OAM signals 失效
    光网络使用复用有效载荷和OAM信号

    公开(公告)号:US5663820A

    公开(公告)日:1997-09-02

    申请号:US579676

    申请日:1995-12-28

    申请人: Tatsuya Shiragaki

    发明人: Tatsuya Shiragaki

    摘要: In a first node of an optical network, an OAM (operations, administration and maintenance) controller produces an electrical OAM signal to control an optical cross-connect switch. This OAM signal is converted to an optical OAM signal and optically multiplexed with an optical payload signal associated with an optical path established in the cross-connect switch, producing an optical multiplex signal which is transmitted. A second node of the network demultiplexes the transmitted signal into an optical payload signal and an optical OAM signal, the latter being converted to an electrical OAM signal and used by an OAM controller of the second node for updating the OAM information. The updated OAM information is used to control the optical cross-connect switch of the second node. The demultiplexed optical payload signal is associated with an optical path established in the cross-connect switch of the second node.

    摘要翻译: 在光网络的第一节点中,OAM(操作,管理和维护)控制器产生电OAM信号以控制光交叉连接交换机。 该OAM信号被转换为光学OAM信号,并与与在交叉连接开关中建立的光路相关联的光学有效载荷信号光学复用,产生被发射的光学多路复用信号。 网络的第二节点将发送的信号解复用为光学有效载荷信号和光学OAM信号,后者被转换为电OAM信号,并被第二节点的OAM控制器用于更新OAM信息。 更新的OAM信息用于控制第二节点的光交叉连接交换机。 解复用的光负载信号与在第二节点的交叉连接交换机中建立的光路相关联。

    Method and system for augmenting communications network with spare
capacity
    10.
    发明授权
    Method and system for augmenting communications network with spare capacity 失效
    增加具有备用容量的通信网络的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US06052796A

    公开(公告)日:2000-04-18

    申请号:US884716

    申请日:1997-06-30

    IPC分类号: H04B17/00 H04L12/24 G06F11/00

    摘要: A method and system for augmenting a communications network with spare components to efficiently re-route network traffic following a failure of one or more network components. The provisioning system of the present invention identifies components that are not configured into the communications network, but that could be configured into the communications network. The provisioning system identifies restoral routes to bypass a failed network component assuming that each of the identified components were configured into the network. The restoral routes are identified based on cost assigned to the identified components and the component currently configured into the network. The provisioning system then selects those identified components that are frequently used in the restoral routes to be configured into the communications network.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于利用备用组件来增强通信网络以在一个或多个网络组件的故障之后有效地重新路由网络流量的方法和系统。 本发明的供应系统识别未配置到通信网络中的组件,但是可以将其配置到通信网络中。 假设每个已识别的组件都配置到网络中,配置系统将识别绕过故障网络组件的修复路由。 基于分配给所识别的组件和当前配置到网络中的组件的成本来识别修复路线。 供应系统然后选择经配置在通信网络中的修复路由中经常使用的识别组件。