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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2024
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Patrice Brissette, Gatineau, CA;
Thierry Couture, Mont-Royal, CA;
Karen Michele Cadora, Boulder, CO (US);
Jiri Chaloupka, San Jose, CA (US);
Suresh Basavarajappa, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for a head-end node in one or more network autonomous systems to utilize a protocol to instantiate services on tail-end nodes. The head-end node can use a service request mechanism that is enabled by the protocol to request service instantiation on the tail-end node without a network operator having to manually configure the tail-end node, or even having access to the tail-end node. Additionally, the protocol may provide mechanisms to define handling attributes for traffic of the service (e.g., quality of service (QoS) attributes, Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) settings, etc.), service acknowledgement mechanisms for the head-end node to determine that the service was instantiated on the tail-end node, and so forth. In this way, a head-end node can be used to instantiate a service on a tail-end node without a network operator having to have direct access to the tail-end node to manually configure the tail-end node.