Determining service outage duration of a data cell stream

摘要

A method for determining a service outage duration of a cell stream is disclosed herein. The method includes configuring a data trace initiation and monitoring a data cell stream. A data trace including a plurality of chronologically referenced data cells associated with the data cell stream is generated in response to identifying a data cell in the data cell stream conforming to the data trace initiation condition. The chronologically referenced data cells are processed for determining a start-of-outage chronological reference indicator for the data cell stream and an end-of-outage chronological reference indicator for the data cell stream. A difference between the start-of-outage and the end-of-outage chronological reference indicators represents the service outage duration for the data cell stream.