Patent ID: 7468955
Filing Date: 2008-12-23
Classification: H04J,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: identifying a set of traffic handling elements within a Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) ring network; for a first traffic handling element of the set of traffic handling elements, evaluating first selected characteristics of a first parent SONET ring with respect to adding the first traffic handling element to a sub-tending SONET ring of the first parent SONET ring; based on a positive evaluation of the first selected characteristics of the first parent SONET ring, creating a data model that adds the first traffic handling element to the first parent SONET ring; providing a data file based on the data model defining a modified SONET ring network including the first parent SONET ring and including the sub-tending SONET ring, wherein the first parent SONET ring includes the first traffic handling element, and wherein the sub-tending SONET ring includes the first traffic handling element.