Optical communications – Fault recovery – Bypass inoperative element
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-14
2006-11-14
Singh, Dalzid (Department: 2613)
Optical communications
Fault recovery
Bypass inoperative element
C398S007000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07136583
ABSTRACT:
Devices (13.1, 31.1) communicate with each other on a wavelength channel using wavelength specific signals on a working WDM fiber (21) having a parallel protection WDM fiber (23). An SDH system (13.S,31.S) uses one channel of the WDM system of the fibers as one of the fibers of the working pair of the SDH system and has a separate fiber (37) constituting that fiber of the protecting fiber pair for the SDH-system. To provide an unambiguous or predictable protection behaviour for the SDH system for the case of the working WDM fiber being cut the RETs (29.1, . . . , 29.S) have two modes. In the first mode a RET will be on and always carry traffic when the input power is high enough. In the second mode a RET they will not automatically turn on again after it has first lost the input signal and thereupon the input signal has returned. The RET can then be manually restarted or restarted after some suitable delay. Then the sequence of events will always be unambiguously defined. For a break of the working WDM fiber, the RET will loose its input signal, turn off, and will not immediately turn on again. Thereby there will always be enough time for the protection scheme of the SDH-system to be carried out. The SDH-system will thus automatically have a working protection path, i.e., the now working, former WDM protection fiber.
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Lundberg Anders
Oberg Magnus
Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
Singh Dalzid
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
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