Patent ID: 6650749
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
A method of protecting equipment and switching functionality in a telecommunication system having a plurality of servers serving a plurality of clients, wherein at least one server among the plurality of servers is a standby server, and the other servers are working servers, the method comprising the steps of:connecting a protection group between the plurality of servers and the plurality of clients, said protection group including a multiplex switching section for connecting any one of the plurality of clients to any one of the plurality of servers, a status monitoring section for monitoring the operational status of each of the plurality of servers, and a configuration section for storing information regarding which servers are capable of serving each of the clients; determining by the status monitoring section that a working server has failed; selecting by the configuration section, a standby server that is capable of serving the clients that were being served by the failed server; and switching by the multiplex switching section, the clients that were being served by the failed server to the selected standby server.