Method and system for stp-aware subscriber management
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsBashar Said Bou-Diab, John Coulter
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Abstract
A method and system for STP-aware subscriber management is disclosed for managing redundant access ports. The STP-aware system includes Access Loop Pairs which provide continuity of subscriber management information in the event of an access port failure. The STP-aware subscriber management system is particularly useful for overcoming the requirements for extra ports within Link Access Group configured access networks known in the art.
Claims9
A system for providing subscriber management in an STP network, said system comprising:
- a broadband switch having a plurality of Ethernet ports;
- at least one DSLAM, having a pair of Ethernet ports connecting the at least one DSLAM to the broadband switch in a loop configuration;
- said broadband switch and said at least one DSLAM operating under at least one of the set of protocols of Spanning Tree Protocol, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol, and Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol;
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- wherein said pair of Ethernet ports of said at least one DSLAM is configured into an access loop pair.
A method for managing subscribers in an STP network having an Ethernet loop ring connection from a broadband switch to a plurality of DSLAMs wherein each DSLAM has a pair of Ethernet ports connecting the DSLAM to the Ethernet loop, said method comprising the steps of:
- for each of said plurality of DSLAMs, configuring the Ethernet port connections into an access loop pair;
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- associating Service Access Points to the access loop pair.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.