SONET outage impact measurement technique

Details SONET outage impact measurement technique SONET outage impact measurement technique

2007-11-08

2008-10-21

Pascal, Leslie (Department: 2613)

Optical communications

Diagnostic testing

Determination of communication parameter

C398S035000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07440694

ABSTRACT:
An accurate method of reporting “minutes of outage” for a SONET facility applies a set of business rules and hierarchical definitions to delete certain minutes that would otherwise be counted as “outages”. In particular, any outage minutes reported for a network element taken out of service for “planned maintenance” activities are removed prior to performing the final count. Additionally, outage minutes for a “lower level” element (such as, for example an OC1 element) that overlap in time with outage minutes reported for a “high level” element are likewise removed before the count is performed. The elimination of these non-service impacting outage minutes thus results in a more accurate reporting of the actual service impact of the counted outage minutes.

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