Patent Document ID: 7852750
Application ID: 12204564
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A telecommunications network comprising: plural nodes connected by plural spans and arranged to form a mesh network, the mesh network having a set of protected spans, and a set of pre-configured cycles; each pre-configured cycle of the set of pre-configured cycles including plural protected spans and plural nodes of the mesh network, the plural nodes of each respective pre-configured cycle being configured to transfer network traffic, in the event of a failure of a span protected by the respective pre-configured cycle, from the protected span to the respective pre-configured cycle, and at least one of the plural nodes of the respective pre-configured cycle being configured to transmit a signal in the event of a failure of one of the plural protected spans included in the respective pre-configured cycle; and each protected span being included in each pre-configured cycle of a respective unique subset of the set of pre-configured cycles, such that the respective unique subset of pre-configured cycles identifies one protected span.