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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2020
Applicant:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Inventors:

Jayant Kumar Bhardwaj, New Delhi, IN;

Himanshu Shah, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Assignee:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/25 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 61/50 (2022.01); H04L 45/74 (2022.01); H04L 47/24 (2022.01); H04L 69/325 (2022.01); H04L 101/622 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/25 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 47/24 (2013.01); H04L 61/20 (2013.01); H04L 69/325 (2013.01); H04L 61/6022 (2013.01);
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).


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