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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
May. 04, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Warren Scott Wainner, Sterling, VA (US);
Brian E. Weis, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Quinn, Wellesley, MA (US);
Scott Roy Fluhrer, North Attleboro, MA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving at a node of a transitive IP network a data packet including a Network Services Header ('NSH'); accessing by the transitive IP network node context contained in the NSH, wherein the context may be used by the transitive IP network node to perform an enhanced network service in connection with the received data packet; performing by the transitive IP network node the enhanced network service in connection with the received data packet using the accessed context; and, subsequent to the performing, forwarding the received packet to a next node.