Patent ID: 11924024
Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A switching apparatus, applied to a local first-type communication node and comprising: a memory and at least one processor;
wherein the memory is configured to store at least one program; and the at least one program, when executed by the at least one processor, enables the at least one processor to implement a switching method, wherein the switching method comprises:
executing a protection switching operation in response to detecting a switching trigger condition; and
synchronizing protection group switching related state information to a second-type communication node, and enabling the second-type communication node to synchronously forward the protection group switching related state information of the local first-type communication node to an opposite first-type communication node;
wherein before the executing the protection switching operation in response to detecting the switching trigger condition, the method further comprises:
configuring protection group members and protection group information of each of the protection group members, wherein the protection group members comprise the local first-type communication node and the opposite first-type communication node; wherein
the protection group information of the local first-type communication node at least comprises a configuration of a protection group member, a priority configuration of the protection group member and a protection group related configuration; and
the protection group information of the opposite first-type communication node at least comprises a configuration of a protection group member, a priority configuration of the protection group member and a protection group related configuration.