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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2023
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Satya Praveen Kumar Pasalapudi, Tracy, CA (US);
Kaliraj Vairavakkalai, Fremont, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Network operators can define port mappings for UDP destination ports and the encapsulated protocol/traffic type (X) in UDP. BGP may be used to notify the UDP destination port-to-traffic type mapping to an encapsulator. A generic UDP encapsulation mechanism (X-in-UDP), where UDP can be used to encapsulate packets of any user configured protocol/traffic type X (e.g., IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, etc.), is described. Primary benefits of using UDP for encapsulation are to leverage UDP port numbers for load-balancing. Generic UDP encapsulation of any protocol/traffic type using user defined port-maps provides flexibility to network operators in constructing different overlay networks. UDP encapsulation helps leverage fine-grade load balancing over Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP).