Patent ID: 8659993
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: creating a protection switching domain having a control virtual local area network (vlan), a first set of one or more protected data vlans, and a second set of one or more protected data vlans; detecting a fault in a ring network, the ring network having a master node connected to at least one transit node, each node linked to an adjacent node by at least one of a primary port or a secondary port, the fault indicating a failed link between adjacent nodes; communicating the fault to the master node via the control vlan; for the one or more protected data vlans of the first set: for the one or more protected data vlans of the second set, queuing domain events of the data vlans(s) of the second set until the state of the ring network for the first set of data vlans is set to complete.