Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Behebung katastrophaler Fehler eines IP Netzes durch Bereitstellung geographischer Redundanz

摘要

Disaster recovery of an IP network having a working area, which includes at least a switch for routing traffic through the IP network, is provided. A first mode (402) is provided wherein the working area is active and routes traffic through the IP network, a backup area that has a functionality to route the traffic through the IP network, the backup area is maintained in standby and IP addresses relating to the traffic are stored in a storage area. A second mode (406) is provided wherein, when the working area is inoperable due to disaster, the backup is activated such that the backup area routes the traffic through the IP network with the IP addresses stored in the storage area.