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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2017
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, BE;
Arjun Sreekantiah, San Jose, CA (US);
Stefano B. Previdi, Rome, IT;
Muthurajah Sivabalan, Kanata, CA;
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01); H04L 12/803 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 45/04 (2013.01); H04L 47/125 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a set of extensions to enable BGP to setup and maintain flexible Segment Routed Traffic Engineered (SR-TE) policies. Embodiments of the present disclosure further propose a new approach for steering traffic onto SR-TE paths on a per-prefix basis without deploying the existing complex mechanisms.