Methods and apparatus for measuring service disruption

• Main Authors: SIMON JOHN FIDDES, NICHOLAS WILLIAM GENT, ATANU NAG
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.02.2006
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

Measurement of duration of service disruption affecting communication of a data stream containing payload data and non-payload symbols interspersed within the payload data is accomplished by monitoring the data stream to detect a symbol having a value indicative of occurrence of an error in the payl...