Patent ID: 8169920
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory data storage medium encoded with computer executable instructions, the computer executable instructions when executed operable to cause a processor to: receive, at a computing system, an identification of a remote optical network element, including network address information of the optical network element; query the remote optical network element for optical network topology information, the optical network topology information comprising network address information of one or more additional remote optical network elements; identify the network address information for the one or more additional remote optical network elements in the optical network topology information; separately query the additional remote optical network elements obtained from the remote optical network element for optical network topology information; determine the optical network topology associated with the optical network element based on the network topology information obtained from the remote optical network element and the additional remote optical network elements; and select one or more tests from a plurality of tests based on the network topology information.