Juniper Networks, Inc.

Michal Styszynski

Wen Lin

Kevin F Wang

Subramaniam Vinod

Mahesh Kumar Subramaniam

A network device may originate a route, and may designate the route as a first colored route having a first color. The network device may advertise the first colored route to a first intermediate network device to cause the first intermediate network device to propagate the first colored route to an ingress network device over a first colored border gateway protocol session. The network device may designate the route as a second colored route having a second color, and may advertise the second colored route to a second intermediate network device to cause the second intermediate network device to propagate the second colored route to the ingress network device over a second colored border gateway protocol session.

Providing border gateway protocol deterministic path forwarding

Techniques are disclosed for overlaying logical switch fabrics upon a physical switch fabric comprising multiple physical switch devices. In one example, a network device determines an overlay network associated with a received packet. The network device determines a logical identifier that is associated with the overlay network. In some examples, the logical identifier corresponds to a color. The network device selects a logical switch fabric that is associated with the logical identifier from a plurality of other logical switch fabrics that are overlaid upon a physical switch fabric comprising a plurality of network switch devices. The network device forwards the received packet to the selected logical switch fabric for transport across the physical switch fabric.

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Michal Styszynski