Method for supporting MPLS transport entity recovery with multiple protection entities

摘要

A system 100 and method for selecting MPLS network transport entities between a first endpoint and a second end point are presented. A working entity 122 and a protection entity 124 arc selected from a set of available entities 120 based upon minimizing the probability of simultaneous failure 150 and/or minimizing a cost function 160 based upon one or more metrics.