Cisco Technology, Inc.

Robert Keith Fielding

Clarence Filsfils

Sami Boutros

Muthurajah Sivabalan

Rex Emmanuel Fernando

Lakshmi Sharma

Bruce McDougall

Santiago Vazquez Freitas

A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a request to create a path through a network, wherein the path originates on a first network device and terminates on the second network device; identifying a first controller associated with the first network device, wherein the first controller proxies control plane functions for the first network device; identifying a second controller associated with the second network device, wherein the second controller proxies control plane functions for the second network device; and computing the path using the first controller as a source and the second controller as a destination. The first controller installs the computed path on the first network device and the second controller installs the computed path on the second network device.

Segment routing label switch paths in network functions virtualization communications networks

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Robert Keith Fielding