Patent ID: 9025435
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of managing a ring network, the method being performed by at least one node of the network and comprising: deriving respective ring bandwidth utilization metrics for each one of a set or two or more candidate seam locations, the ring bandwidth utilization metrics being representative of a utilization of overall bandwidth resources of the network; identifying an optimal seam location from among the set of candidate seam locations, based on the ring bandwidth utilization metrics; and implementing a channel block at the optimal seam location; wherein deriving ring bandwidth utilization metrics comprises, for each ring node, calculating a respective set of predicted nodal bandwidth utilization metrics for each candidate seam location in the network, the nodal bandwidth utilization metrics being representative of a utilization of bandwidth resources of each ring node, and calculating a set of ring bandwidth utilization metrics for each candidate seam location in the network, based on the nodal bandwidth utilization metrics.