Abstract: The present invention provides for a method for Enhanced Equipment Protection Switch for Customer's device Dual-Homing, in an interconnection between a Central site/Pop and a Transport Network Hub by two boards. Each board is simultaneously connected to the Switching Matrix of the Transport Network Hub with B/2 bandwidth. Both boards receive the band B from the Central site/Pop, and send half a band B/2 directly to the Switching Matrix, and the other half band B/2 to the other board.

Abstract: Method of processing MPLS packets in a telecommunication equipment comprising the following steps in the following order: incoming direction: count received frames and octets, validate packets, determine interface identification, count received packets and octets, strip external header, lookup for destination of incoming packets, next layer decision and forwarding, TTL management, if next-hop is not the equipment, PHB determination; outgoing direction: extract TTL from received outgoing client packets, forward received outgoing client packet as stripped MPLS packet with FEC, PHB, TTL, generate End_of_Stack bit, forward stripped MPLS packet with FEC, PHB, TTL, End_of_Stack lookup for destination of outgoing client packets with FEC originated by the equipment, TTL management create MPLS header, count transmitted packets and octets, forward MPLS packet, PHB, Next Hop.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for an end-to-end connection between an RPR and an MPLS network, where the RPR network is linked to the MPLS network (and viceversa) through a TLS layer. In a preferred solution, the client layer is Ethernet, but any client layer can be considered.

Abstract: A method for creating an Operation Administration and Maintenance frame in an Ethemet/Transport Multi-Protocol Label Switch hybrid network. The method includes mapping values in an Ethernet Operation Administration and Maintenance data field in a protocol data unit (PDU) in a first Ethernet Operation Administration and Maintenance frame (Ethernet OAM frame) into a Transport Multi-Protocol Label Switch Operation Administration and Maintenance data field in PDU in a first Transport Multi-Protocol Label Switch Operation Administration and Maintenance frame (TMPLS OAM frame) and mapping values in first control parameter fields in the first Ethernet OAM frame into second control parameter fields in the first TMPLS OAM frame. The PDU in the first TMPLS OAM frame includes added extra fields as necessary, and the second control parameter fields further comprise preselected default information and routing information mapped from values stored in a memory.

Abstract: Described is a method extending the OAM functionality in the RPR networks through a new OAM loopback procedure of request-reply type together with the definition of a new RPR OAM loopback frame. The OAM loopback function allows any RPR station to check the reachability of another RPR station. It is not necessary to stop any data traffic communication on the network in order to perform this function.

Abstract: It is disclosed a method for monitoring traffic in a private VLAN, the traffic bidirectionally propagating across the private VLAN through a sequence of nodes sequentially connected by a primary VLAN and a secondary VLAN, the sequence of nodes comprising a first node and a second node, wherein the method comprises: transmitting a monitoring message from the first node to the second node either along the primary VLAN or the secondary VLAN, according to a first criterion based upon a type of the first node; receiving the monitoring message at the second node; and upon reception of the monitoring message at the second node, transmitting a reply message from the second node to the first node either along the primary VLAN or the secondary VLAN, according to a second criterion based upon a type of the second node and upon a VLAN different from the VLAN from which the monitoring message has been received.

Abstract: It is disclosed a method of monitoring, a Multi-Protocol Label Switching network, a tandem connection of a Label Switched Path. The tandem connection to be monitored has an input node and an output node. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a first Operation Administration Management packet at the input node; and generating a second OAM packet at the input node. According to the invention, the following steps are further performed: a tandem connection header is inserted into the first OAM packet; both the first OAM packet with the tandem connection header and the second OAM packet are sent towards the output node; and the second OAM packet is identified according to the presence or absence of said tandem connection header.

Abstract: A method is described for checking support of a function at network elements of a telecommunication network, like an operation and management function. The telecommunication network includes a source, a destination and intermediate control plane elements interconnected through a signalling protocol for controlling a source, a destination and intermediate network elements respectively for configuration of a connection from the source to the destination network element crossing the intermediate network elements.

Abstract: A method is described for managing and propagating a failure indication in a telecommunication system. The telecommunication system comprises at least a synchronous transport network and a packet-switched network which is connected to the synchronous transport network by means of a node having a transport side towards the synchronous transport network and a packet side towards the packet-switched network. According to the invention, the method comprises the following steps, which are performed by said node: detecting a first failure at the transport side; performing consequent actions in the output direction at the packet side; detecting at the packet side a second failure which is caused by said consequent actions; and ignoring the second failure.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a method for Enhanced Equipment Protection Switch for Customer's device Dual-Homing, in an interconnection between a Central site/Pop and a Transport Network Hub by two boards. Each board is simultaneously connected to the Switching Matrix of the Transport Network Hub with B/2 bandwidth. Both boards receive the band B from the Central site/Pop, and send half a band B/2 directly to the Switching Matrix, and the other half band B/2 to the other board.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a method for mapping MPLS packets over Synchronous Digital Transport Networks (SDH/SONET) or Optical Transport Networks (OTN) via GFP mapping layer, through a modified PPP protocol without the LCP and NCP protocols for negotiation. In the modified PPP protocol the MPLS or IP packets are inserted, and then the GFP header is added. In order to map the modified PPP over GFP a new UPI (User Paylod Identifier) value is defined in the GFP Core header.

Abstract: Method of processing MPLS packets in a telecommunication equipment comprising the following steps in the following order:

Abstract: The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for an end-to-end connection between an RPR and an MPLS network, where the RPR network is linked to the MPLS network (and viceversa) through a TLS layer. In a preferred solution, the client layer is Ethernet, but any client layer can be considered.

Abstract: Method for interconnecting a number of RPR rings in a wide area RPR network which provides for creating a hierarchical tree of RPR rings. Communications between different RPR rings in the network are allowed only according to the hierarchical tree architecture, through suitable ring identifiers assigned to the RPR rings according to the hierarchical tree structure.

Abstract: A method for protecting RPR networks of extended topology, in particular RPR Ring-to-Ring and Meshed Backbone networks having a number of RPR rings interconnected according to one or more hierarchical tree structures, in which the protection is carried out at two levels: Intra-Ring Protection, reacting to failures on a single RPR ring; Inter-Ring Protection, reacting to failures that occur between two different RPR rings by using at least two RPR Gateways at the interface between two RPR rings.

Abstract: Method to set-up a transparent LAN-to-LAN functionality connection between a first multicustomer source location and a second multicustomer destination location through a RPR data transport network, said method comprising the steps of: receiving an Ethernet frame from a customer interface; processing in a conventional manner the Ethernet frame received; adding an auxiliary header to form a TLS frame; and adding to the resulting TLS frame a RPR header to form a RPR data transport frame for the RPR network. The auxiliary header comprises information about the channel designed to transport the RPR frame from the source node input interface to the destination node output interface.

Abstract: Described is a method for propagating the fault information on a Resilient Packet Ring network, wherein each Resilient Packet Ring network element sends periodically a keep-alive message containing the fault information to its neighbor elements on both the ringlet directions, in order to inform the neighbor elements that the network element is working or to propagate the information about the detected fault. Once that a fault notification is propagated, every network element has to wait some time before undertaking the necessary steps in order to be sure that the fault notification is persistent.

Abstract: Described is a method extending the OAM functionality in the RPR networks through a new OAM loopback procedure of request-reply type together with the definition of a new RPR OAM loopback frame. The OAM loopback function allows any RPR station to check the reachability of another RPR station. It is not necessary to stop any data traffic communication on the network in order to perform this function.