Absolute control of virtual switches
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorLuciano Capo
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Abstract
A telecommunications device for a telecommunications network comprises a controller configured to enable or disable said telecommunications device to reception and/or transmission of telecommunications data. The controller is further configured to generate a plurality of keep-alive signals for the telecommunications device. The telecommunications device is disabled to reception or transmission of said telecommunications data if no keep-alive signal is received by the telecommunications device after a predetermined time.
Claims5
A method for implementing a protection scheme in a telecommunications network comprising a working telecommunications device and a back-up telecommunications device connected to a same communication medium of the telecommunications network, the method implemented by the working telecommunication device comprises steps of:
- supplying a plurality of consecutive keep-alive from a controller to a transceiving unit, where the working telecommunication device comprises the controller and the transceiving unit;
- disabling the transceivinq unit if no keep-alive signal from said controller is received after a predetermined time, wherein the transceiving unit is connected to the same communication medium of the telecommunications network;
- after disabling the transceiving unit, enabling the back-up telecommunications device, so as to switch traffic for the working telecommunications device to the back-up telecommunications device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.