APS SERVICE CHANNEL SWITCHING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND APS DEVICE

摘要

The present invention relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses a method and a system for switching an APS service channel, and an automatic protection switching device. The method includes: a first recovered side reaches a wait-to-restore (WTR) state when the first recovered side receives information about transition to the WTR state from a second recovered side if a current state of the first recovered side is a first No Request (NR) state and if a state prior to transition to the first NR state is a Signal Fail (SF) state; and the first recovered side reaches a second NR state upon expiry of a WTR time of the first recovered side after receiving WTR time expiry information sent by the second recovered side. Therefore, the user can know the WTR state of the first recovered side clearly; and, when the WTR time set on the first recovered side is greater than the WTR time set on the second recovered side, the service is not switched back to the working channel until the WTR time of the first recovered side expires, thereby meeting the customer requirement of switching back to the working channel upon expiry of the WTR time after the working channel recovers from the fault.