Asymmetric OTN network traffic support
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsCatherine Yuan, Vikas Mittal, David Solomon
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Abstract
A method of network communications includes determining an access identifier (AID) for an egress signal through a network interface of a network element, an Optical Transport Network (OTN) multiplexing structure identifier (MSI) associated with the egress signal through the network interface, another AID associated with a defined ingress signal through the network interface, another OTN MSI associated with the defined ingress signal through the network interface, and associating the egress signal and the defined ingress signal based on the AIDs and OTN MSIs. The first OTN MSI is not equal to the second OTN MSI.
Claims18
A method for network communications, comprising:
- determining a first access identifier (AID) for an egress signal through a network interface of a network element;
- determining a first Optical Transport Network (OTN) multiplexing structure identifier (MSI) associated with the egress signal through the network interface;
- determining a second AID associated with a defined ingress signal through the network interface;
- determining a second OTN MSI associated with the defined ingress signal through the network interface, wherein the first OTN MSI is not equal to the second OTN MSI;
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- associating the egress signal and the defined ingress signal based on the first AID, the first OTN MSI, the second AID, and the second OTN MSI.
A network element comprising:
- a network interface;
- a memory;
- a first entry in the memory, including:
- an Access Identifier (AID) associated with an egress signal through the network interface;
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- an Optical Transport Network (OTN) multiplexing structure identifier (MSI) associated with the egress signal through the network interface;
- a second entry in the memory, including:
- an AID associated with a defined ingress signal through the network interface;
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- an OTN MSI associated with the defined ingress signal through the network interface, wherein the OTN MSI of the first entry is not equal to the OTN MSI of the second entry;
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- a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to associate the first entry and the second entry based on the AID and the OTN MSI of the first entry and the AID and the OTN MSI of the second entry.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.