US Patent Issued to ACCEDIAN NETWORKS on Aug. 12 for "System and method for out-of-line real-time in-service performance measurement" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,739, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ACCEDIAN NETWORKS INC. (Saint-Laurent, Canada).

"System and method for out-of-line real-time in-service performance measurement" was invented by Claude Robitaille (St-Placide, Canada), Chris Reamy (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Germain Levesque (Saint-Laurent, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for out-of-line testing of performance of a network, comprising a multiplexer at an input to the network; a demultiplexer at an output from the network; the multiplexer further comprising a traffic generator to insert synthetic traffic, and a first switch to accept an incoming customer traffic...