Patent ID: 9571346
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A communication system comprising: a transmission network including a plurality of transmitting devices configured to set in advance information on data to be transferred in an entry device and an exit device and transfer the data; an IP network including a plurality of communicating devices configured to determine a destination of data transfer on a basis of an IP address; and a control device configured to manage the transmitting devices and connect the transmitting devices and the communicating devices by use of network control packets on the IP network; the transmitting devices transferring the network control packets transmitted by the communicating devices to the control device, the control device treating the transmission network as one virtual communicating device, converting information on the plurality of transmitting devices into the network control packets, and being connected to the communicating devices, the control device including the virtual communicating device functional section including wherein, once the transmitting device managing section has detected a fault within the transmission network,