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US 8,824,486 B2Granted
Network re-routing systems and methods
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsThaddeus O. June, Duane Hattaway
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Abstract
A telecommunications system includes a local data switch in communication with a first interexchange carrier network and a customer computer in communication with the local data switch. When there is a disruption in a first interexchange carrier network, the customer computer can reconfigure the local data switch from a customer facility such that data traffic to and from the customer facility is rerouted from the first interexchange carrier network to a second interexchange carrier network.
Claims10
A telecommunications system, comprising:
- a customer computer in communication with a local data switch in communication with a first interexchange carrier network and a second interexchange carrier network, the local data switch including a first configuration associated with a first communication path between the customer computer and the first interexchange carrier, the local data switch including a second configuration associated with a second communication path between the customer computer and the second interexchange carrier;
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- a customer network management application configured to enable a user of the customer computer to change the local data switch from operating according to the first configuration to operating according to the second configuration, and wherein the local data switch is configured to return to operating according to the first configuration after a predetermined period of time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.