Systems and methods for handling performance monitoring data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8949285-B2
Application number	US-26867808-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 11, 2008
Priority date	Sep 19, 2008
Publication date	Feb 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015

Abstract

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for handling performance monitoring (PM) data in a database in a manner that supports different PM data sets from different network element (NE) device types in an integrated manner. The present invention defines a single database structure that can be utilized to store, handle, retrieve, etc. PM counters from multiple NEs including NEs of different types, e.g. SONET/SDH NE, DWDM NE, optical switch, Ethernet switch, etc. The single database enables an efficient mechanism to handle PM data in a uniform way across a network with different device types.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for handling historical performance monitoring data, comprising:
receiving a set of performance monitoring counters from a network element comprising a network element device type of a plurality of network element device types comprising one of a plurality of protocols comprising SONET/SDH, OTN, and Ethernet;
creating a new record in a performance monitoring database, wherein records in the performance monitoring database store the set of performa…

Assignees

• Kumar Vikas
• Ciena Corp

Inventors

• Kumar Vikas

Classifications

• G06F16/211

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L41/5003

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L41/5009 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F17/30292

  Physics · mapped topic