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Nortel Networks Corporation

Rpx Clearinghouse LLC

Shobhan Lakkapragada

Paul Unbehagen

Vasile Radoaca

Praveen Muley

Indermohan S Monga

Stephen Suryaputra

Vikram Ramachandran

Khera Gautam

Rajesh Saluja

The present invention facilitates automatic discovery of VPN-related information, which relates to the existence or association of VPNs as supported by provider edge devices in a core network. In particular, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is used to facilitate the automatic discovery, and the provider edge devices are capable of subsequently and automatically triggering Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) processes to facilitate signaling over LDP sessions within the core network.

Autodiscovery for virtual networks

A system, device, and method for distributing routing information in an optical virtual private network establishes an initial bootstrap topology and distributes the routing information over the initial bootstrap topology. Each node establishes a communication connection to one and only one lower priority peer node if such a lower priority peer node exists. If more than one lower priority peer nodes exist, then one of the lower priority peer nodes is selected and the communication connection is established to the selected lower priority peer node.

System, device, and method for distributing routing information in an optical virtual private network

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Tyngsboro, MA, United States of America

Shobhan Lakkapragada