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Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 13, 2023
Applicant:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Inventors:

Ashwath Narasimhan, Milpitas, CA (US);

Muthurajah Sivabalan, Kanata, CA;

Tao Wang, Ottawa, CA;

Lakshmi Rajasekaran, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 45/741 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/741 (2013.01); H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 45/566 (2013.01);
Abstract

A node configured to operate in a network that operates one or more of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6), the node comprising circuitry configured to receive a packet from another node in the network, wherein the node supports both a reduced mode and a non-reduced mode, and determine whether there is an identifier in the packet that indicates whether the packet is based on the reduced mode or the non-reduced mode. The identifier can be utilized to determine whether a destination address in the packet is either an IPv6 destination address or an SRv6 micro-Segment Identifier (uSID).


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