Fault isolation and provisioning for optical switches

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PATENT NO 8849109
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11394259

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The present invention includes method and apparatus for storing provisioned information within the optical switches and retrievable by every controller. The optical switches perform failure isolation according to their provisioning information. The optical switches monitor each channel for loss of signal. The provisioning information is shared autonomously between the optical switches allowing the switches to retrieve the provisioning information of the network topology from any other optical switch in the network. Fault isolation is done by the optical switch on the level of optical switch provisioning following the paradigm of “single alarm for single fault,” thus avoiding alarm floods and ambiguous alarms, thereby saving the operator time and money.

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  • ALCATEL LUCENT;PROVENANCE ASSET GROUP LLC

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Meyer, Gerhard Eggolsheim, DE 56 610
Thomas, Wolfgang Nuremberg, DE 9 64

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