Fault control and restoration in a data communication system
CA 2339237 A1 · Owner: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson · Inventors: Hiltunen, Seppo
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A method of controlling a multi-channel processor board (1a) in a telecommunications system comprises monitoring the fault status of a multiplicity of processor cores (3), each arranged to process one or more speech channels, distributed amongst a plurality of Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) (2a-2d) of the processor board (1a). Monitoring comprises receiving fault alarms from fault containing DSPs at an on-board controller (5) and , notifying an off-board controller (8) of a received fault alarm including identifying the faulty core(s) and/or associated speech channels. The offboard controller (8) returns to the on-board controller (5) a reset command whereupon the on-board …
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