Apparatus and method for determining network elements having reserved resources for voice traffic

• US 20040054772A1
• Filed: 08/30/2002
• Published: 03/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Avaya Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Avaya Incorporated
• Inventors: Minhazuddin, Muneyb
• Application Number:
  US10/232,453
• Publication Number:
  US 20040054772A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies

Abstract

An apparatus and method that first identifies all of the network elements that are part of a switching network and then removes from this overall network configuration those network elements that are not transporting a predefined type of information. The result is a network configuration that is made up of only those network elements that are switching the predefined type of information. The predefined type of information may be voice or video information or a combination of voice and video information.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring a switching network having a plurality of network elements, comprising the steps of:

interrogating the plurality of network elements to determine a subset of the plurality of network elements transporting voice information;

creating a network topology illustrating all of the plurality of network elements; and

removing all of the plurality of network elements except for the subset of the plurality of network elements from the network topology.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprises the step of displaying the resulting network topology after the step of removing has been performed.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of interrogating comprises the step of determining ones of the plurality of network elements that are enabled for a resource reservation setup protocol.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the step of interrogating further comprises the step of designating each determined one of the plurality of network elements as one of the subset of the plurality of network elements.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of interrogating comprises the step of determining ones of the plurality of network elements that are enabled for a differentiated services framework protocol.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the step of interrogating further comprises the step of designating each determined one of the plurality of network elements as one of the subset of the plurality of network elements.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of creating comprises the step of determining interconnection of each of the plurality of network elements within the switching network.

15. An apparatus for performing the steps of claim 1.

16. An apparatus for performing the steps of claim 4.

17. An apparatus for performing the steps of claim 6.

18. An apparatus for performing the steps of claim 7.

8. A processor-readable medium comprising processor-executable instructions configured for:

interrogating the plurality of network elements to determine a subset of the plurality of network elements transporting voice information;

creating a network topology illustrating all of the plurality of network elements; and

removing all of the plurality of network elements except for the subset of the plurality of network elements from the network topology.

9. The processor-readable medium of claim 8 further comprises displaying the resulting network topology after the step of removing has been performed.

10. The processor-readable medium of claim 8 wherein the interrogating comprises determining ones of the plurality of network elements that are enabled for a resource reservation setup protocol.

11. The processor-readable medium of claim 10 wherein the interrogating further comprises designating each determined one of the plurality of network elements as one of the subset of the plurality of network elements.

12. The processor-readable medium of claim 8 wherein the interrogating comprises determining ones of the plurality of network elements that are enabled for a differentiated services framework protocol.

13. The processor-readable medium of claim 12 wherein the interrogating further comprises designating each determined one of the plurality of network elements as one of the subset of the plurality of network elements.

14. The processor-readable medium of claim 8 wherein the creating comprises determining interconnection of each of the plurality of network elements within the switching network.

19. A method for monitoring a switching network having a plurality of network elements, comprising the steps of:

interrogating the plurality of network elements to determine a subset of the plurality of network elements transporting a predefined type of information;

creating a network topology illustrating all of the plurality of network elements; and

removing all of the plurality of network elements except for the subset of the plurality of network elements from the network topology.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprises the step of displaying the resulting network topology after the step of removing has been performed.

21. The method of claim 19 wherein the step of interrogating comprises the step of determining ones of the plurality of network elements that are enabled for a resource reservation setup protocol.

22. The method of claim 21 wherein the step of interrogating further comprises the step of designating each determined one of the plurality of network elements as one of the subset of the plurality of network elements.

23. The method of claim 19 wherein the step of interrogating comprises the step of determining ones of the plurality of network elements that are enabled for a differentiated services framework protocol.

24. The method of claim 23 wherein the step of interrogating further comprises the step of designating each determined one of the plurality of network elements as one of the subset of the plurality of network elements.

25. The method of claim 19 wherein the step of creating comprises the step of determining interconnection of each of the plurality of network elements within the switching network.

26. A processor-readable medium comprising processor-executable instructions configured for:

interrogating the plurality of network elements to determine a subset of the plurality of network elements transporting predefined type of information;

creating a network topology illustrating all of the plurality of network elements; and

removing all of the plurality of network elements except for the subset of the plurality of network elements from the network topology.

27. The processor-readable medium of claim 26 further comprises displaying the resulting network topology after the step of removing has been performed.

28. The processor-readable medium of claim 26 wherein the interrogating comprises determining ones of the plurality of network elements that are enabled for a resource reservation setup protocol.

29. The processor-readable medium of claim 28 wherein the interrogating further comprises designating each determined one of the plurality of network elements as one of the subset of the plurality of network elements.

30. The processor-readable medium of claim 26 wherein the interrogating comprises determining ones of the plurality of network elements that are enabled for a differentiated services framework protocol.

31. The processor-readable medium of claim 30 wherein the interrogating further comprises designating each determined one of the plurality of network elements as one of the subset of the plurality of network elements.

32. The processor-readable medium of claim 26 wherein the creating comprises determining interconnection of each of the plurality of network elements within the switching network.