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Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025

Filed:

Jun. 27, 2023
Applicant:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Inventor:

Sami Boutros, Union City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01); H04L 45/24 (2022.01); H04L 61/58 (2022.01); H04L 67/568 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/563 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 61/58 (2022.05);
Abstract

A method, implemented for a first component of a network element, includes steps of, responsive to one or more routing state updates for one or more routes, updating a route entry for the one or more routes in an update library that communicates with a cache database; and exchanging the routing state updates with a second component of the network element, wherein the exchanging of the routing state updates is bulked where the second component is configured to read all of the exchanged routing state updates. The exchanging is performed instead of providing a routing state message for each of the one or more routing state updates for the same route state.


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