Honeywell International Inc.
Systems and methods for increasing capacity in a redundancy network

Abstract:

A redundancy network is coupled to a first plurality of signal components and to a beam hopping network. The redundancy network has redundancy network signal junctions configurable to define redundancy network signal paths through the redundancy network, with one path for each signal component. The beam hopping network has beam hopping junctions configurable to define beam hopping signals paths from the redundancy network to other signal components. The beam hopping junctions are dynamically adjustable to reconfigure the beam hopping signals paths so signals from the redundancy network are deliverable to at least two of the other signal components. The redundancy network signal junctions are reconfigurable in response to a failure of one of the first signal components to redefine the redundancy network signal paths so that signals from the remaining first signal components are distributable, by the beam hopping network, to all of the other signal components.