Patent ID: 8611209

Claim:
A method for operating a breakout system for communicating with a basestation that transmits and receives radio signals to and from user equipment, wherein the basestation is part of a radio access network that communicates with a core network in a mobile data network, the breakout system having an enclosure, the method comprising the steps of: providing a fail-to-wire (FTW) module with a primary network data path that connects an upstream computer to a downstream computer and a breakout network data path that connects the upstream computer and the downstream computer to the breakout system; providing a plurality of switches that switch between the primary network data path and the breakout network data path, wherein the switches in an inactivated state preserve the primary data path and in an activated state route input connections from the upstream computer and the downstream computer on the breakout data path to the breakout system; providing a control input to the switches driven by a system health signal that activates the plurality of switches to connect the breakout data path when the breakout system is operational; receiving health inputs from a plurality of intelligent subsystems of the breakout system to determine errors in the breakout system; and recovering from an error in the breakout system using a combination of hardware recovery actions, software recovery actions and network recovery actions, and, when the error is critical and non-recoverable, an autonomic recovery mechanism drives the health signal to activate the plurality of switches and remove the breakout system from the mobile data network.