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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2014
Alcatel-lucent Usa, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Adiseshu Hari, Holmdel, NJ (US);
NOKIA OF AMERICA CORPORATION, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments relate to a method, device, and machine-readable storage medium including: instructions for receiving a configuration request from an edge device, wherein the configuration request identifies a traffic flow between at least two end devices other than the edge device; instructions for assigning a virtual local area network (VLAN) identifier to the traffic flow; instructions for configuring the edge device to add the assigned VLAN identifier to outgoing frames associated with the traffic flow, wherein the outgoing frames are frames that will be transmitted by the edge device to a core network. Various embodiments additionally include instructions for configuring, in response to assigning the VLAN identifier, at least one additional edge device to remove the VLAN identifier from incoming frames associated with the traffic flow, wherein the incoming frames are frames that have traversed at least one core node of the core network.