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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2020
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Jayant Kumar Bhardwaj, New Delhi, IN;
Himanshu Shah, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods include receiving one or more Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) advertisements from one or more peer nodes with information including any of traffic characterization information and traffic control information; and providing traffic to the EVPN and to the corresponding one or more peer nodes based on the information from the corresponding one or more peer nodes. The one or more EVPN advertisements can be in an EVPN Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) advertisement, and the EVPN NLRI can have Route Type 1 for the information to apply to an EVPN Instance (EVI) and the EVPN NLRI can have Route Type 2 for the information to apply to a specific customer node based on a Media Access Control (MAC).