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Abstract

In a telecommunications network, such as an optical mesh network, at a node along a service path satisfying a demand from a start node to an end node, the node can detect a failure in the service path by any of three different ways: (a) by monitoring incoming payload signals from its previous node along the service path for a loss-of-signal (LOS) condition; (b) by monitoring the incoming payload signals from its previous node along the service path for an in-band alarm indication signal; and (c) by monitoring an out-of-band signaling channel for a failure message transmitted from its previous node along the service path. The node then determines appropriate actions as part of a distributed restoration procedure depending on whether the node is an intermediate node or the end node along the service path. If the node is an intermediate node, then the node passes the out-of-band failure message to its next node along the service path. If the nod is the end node, then the node transmits an out-of-band restore message to its previous node along the corresponding restoration path. In both cases, the node proceeds to reconfigure its cross-connect for the transition from the service path to the restoration path.

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