Patent ID: 9621969
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04Q

Claim:
1. A node, comprising: an input interface for receiving traffic from a first communication link; an output interface for transmitting traffic to a second communication link; a switch for communicating the traffic from the input interface to the output interface; and a control module located proximate to the input interface, output interface and the switch, the control module comprising a communication interface configured to connect to a third communication link external to the node, the control module having a processor accessing network node configuration information and being configured to compute a path to a destination node through the output interface with the network node configuration information and also configured to be switched from a first state in which the processor provides first instructions to the switch to configure the switch to communicate the traffic from the input interface to the output interface, to a second state in which the processor provides second instructions, received via the communication interface, to the switch to configure the switch to communicate traffic from the input interface to the output interface.