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Patent Inventor Names
Craig Suitor0
Craig Parker0
Date of Patent
September 15, 2009
0Patent Application Number
109586750
Date Filed
October 5, 2004
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
Described is a network element for a communications network. Management communications with the network element occur using a single IP address. The network element includes two shelf processors each having a negotiations module. One of the shelf processors has a master status and the other shelf processor has a slave status. A backplane in communication with the shelf processors allows the negotiations modules to exchange data and to determine whether one of the shelf processors has experienced a fault. If a fault is determined in the master shelf processor, the slave shelf processor becomes the master shelf processor and the master shelf processor becomes the slave shelf processor.
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