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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2022
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Divya Bhargava, San Jose, CA (US);
Muthurajah Sivabalan, Ottawa, CA;
Arif Aboobacker, San Jose, CA (US);
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for enhancing Segment Routing (SR) protocols are provided for enabling the stitching of a remote SR policy to a local SR policy. A method can include obtaining a Segment Routing (SR) policy for routing a packet along a path in a downstream domain, the SR policy including at least a destination field and a color field, the destination field defining an end-point of the path in the downstream domain, the end-point representing a destination node or service instance, the color field defining the path in the downstream domain, and storing the SR policy in the database.