METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATICALLY REROUTING LOGICAL CIRCUIT DATA FROM A LOGICAL CIRCUIT FAILURE TO A DEDICATED BACKUP CIRCUIT IN A DATA NETWORK

摘要

An example method involves rerouting a logical circuit from a first set of switches to a second set of switches to communicate data between network devices without breaking the logical circuit. The logical circuit includes variable communication paths, and the second set of switches are to form a route associated with the variable communication paths that is not predefined and that is dynamically defined at a time of automatic rerouting. The example method also involves detecting a failure of the logical circuit based on at least one of a committed information rate or a committed burst size having been exceeded. In addition, the data is rerouted from the logical circuit to a logical failover circuit in the data network in response to detecting the failure of the logical circuit. The logical failover circuit includes an alternative communication path to communicate the data.