Patent ID: 7453900

Claim:
An apparatus for monitoring noise associated with a communication link, comprising: a cell site element facilitating a data exchange, wherein the cell site element includes a link noise monitoring element monitoring a plurality of communication links that facilitate a plurality of communication flows and to determine whether an error parameter associated with a selected one or more of the communication links has exceeded a predefined threshold, the link noise monitoring element communicates an alert message to a next destination when the predefined threshold has been exceeded, wherein the link noise monitoring element monitors one or more of the plurality of communication links in order to determine if an additional predefined threshold has been exceeded, the additional predefined threshold being associated with a removal protocol, and wherein if the additional predefined threshold is exceeded, the link noise monitoring element responds by removing one or more of the communication links associated with exceeding the additional predefined threshold, wherein if a communication link associated with the removal protocol is a last link in a multi-link bundle, it is not removed.