4-fiber BLSR/MS-SPRing protection
4-Fiber Bidirectional Line Switched Ring (BLSR) or Multiplexed Section-Shared Protection Ring (MS-SPRing) protection
is a line protection scheme used in SONET/SDH rings. In this scheme a bidirectional line is used to carry the traffic; another
bidirectional line is reserved for protection. When failure occurs, the traffic is switched from the working lines onto the protection lines. This scheme first activates span switching when there is a line level failure. If span switching is not
enabled or not possible, the scheme activates ring switching away from the failure.
Nodes are connected via a pair of bidirectional lines (working and protection lines) to form a ring. Up to 16 Network elements can
be connected in a 4F-BLSR/4F-MS-SPRing ring. When a line failure occurs, the nodes that bookend the failed line switch the traffic from the working path to one of the two protection paths. The first protection path uses the protection span (similar
to 1+1 APS) while the second protection path traverses around the ring opposite to the failure.
Physical
configuration of the 4F-BLSR/4F-MS-SPRing protection groupshows the physical configuration of the 4F-BLSR/4F-MS-SPRing Protection Group.
Physical
configuration of the 4F-BLSR/4F-MS-SPRing protection group

Classes
and relationships used in 4F-BLSR/4F-MS-SPRing protectionshows the classes and relationships used to model 4F-BLSR/4F- MS-SPRing protection. Each HighOrder_Circuit
or LowOrder_Circuit across a 4F-BLSR/4F-MS-SPRing ring is LayerOver a HighOrder_Trail. The HighOrder_Trail is LayeredOver a RingProtectionGroup object. Each RingProtectionGroup object has a ComposedOfRPG relationship with TopologicalLinkGroup objects.
Each TopologicalLinkGroup object has a Route relationship for the working route and an AlternateRoute for the alternate route, which is similar to the 1 + 1 protection group for a link between two network elements. Each RingProtectionGroup also
has a RouteProtectedBy relationship with TopologicalLink objects, which participate in ring switching.
Classes
and relationships used in 4F-BLSR/4F-MS-SPRing protection
