Patent ID: 8965197
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: H04B,H04J,H04L

Abstract:
1. A node device in an optical transport ring network including plural node devices connected in a ring form using plural optical transmission paths so that optical transport frames of a working line and a protection line are transmitted using the plural optical transmission paths, the node device comprising: a control information transmitter configured to, when a failure occurs in an optical transmission path of the optical transmission paths, transmit the optical transport frame including switching control information to an opposing node device that is located opposite to the node device across the optical transmission path where the failure has occurred; a switcher configured to a storage configured to store paths corresponding to plural sets of path monitoring information included in the optical transport frame in association with priority levels of the plural sets of path monitoring information, wherein when receiving the optical transport frame including the switching control information, the switcher switches the paths corresponding to the plural sets of path monitoring information from the working line to the protection line in accordance with the priority levels of the plural sets of path monitoring information stored in the storage; wherein the control information transmitter is configured to add, to the switching control information, cross-connection information indicating whether a cross-connection for the working line and the protection line is included in the node device and transmit the optical transport frame including the switching control information; and wherein the switcher is configured to stop switching the optical transmission path from the working line to the protection line when the optical transport frame destined for the node device is received from a source node device and includes the switching control information that includes the cross-connection information indicating that the cross-connection is not included in the source node device.