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US 8,078,051 B2Granted
Method and system for a secure bi-directional line switched ring
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorScott David Arena
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Abstract
A method or system including implementing one or more indicators to specify traffic ordering associated with an optical networking protocol and ordering traffic according to the one or more indicators.
Claims15
A method, comprising:
- implementing, on an optical network, one or more indicators to specify traffic ordering associated with an optical networking protocol;
- ordering traffic, on an optical network, according to the one or more indicators;
- wherein the ordering comprises sending data on a first set of non-contiguous timeslots;
- sending data over a second set of non-contiguous timeslots in response to a protection event in a portion of the optical network associated with the first set of non-contiguous timeslots;
- sending pseudo random data on the first set of non-contiguous time slots in response to the protection event;
- and
- configuring receiving nodes to ignore the pseudo random data.
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A system comprising:
- a security protocol module that implements one or more security protocols for managing traffic ordering in an optical network;
- wherein the one or more security protocols are implemented within an optical networking protocol and the traffic ordering is altered from a contiguous ordering scheme associated with the optical networking protocol to a scheme in which data is transmitted on a first set of non-contiguous timeslots;
- the security protocol module being further configured to:
- send data over a second set of non-contiguous timeslots in response to a protection event in a portion of the optical network associated with the first set of non-contiguous timeslots;
- send pseudo random data on the first set of non-contiguous time slots in response to a protection event;
- and
- configure receiving nodes to ignore the pseudo random data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.