Patent ID: 8792335
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for sharing protection of a mesh network protection domain, comprising: presetting a protection ring in the mesh network protection domain, a path of the protection ring running through source and destination nodes of a plurality of services in the mesh network protection domain, and only reserving protection resources in the path of the protection ring; and configuring corresponding protection groups for each service; the corresponding protection groups respectively selecting a protection method for each service; and setting protection paths for all the protection groups on the protection ring; wherein when a fault occurs in the mesh network protection domain and causes that a service is impaired, if the protection path of the service is not occupied by other services, a switching processing is performed according to the protection method used by the service; or if the protection path of a service is occupied by other services, alarm information of the fault is recorded, and the switching processing is performed according to the protection method used by the service only when the protection path of the service turns to be idle and the fault hasn't disappeared yet.