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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2024
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Ciena Corporation, Fulton, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for performing connectivity checks, such as Seamless Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (S-BFD), are provided. A node is configured to operate in a network, the node is a Seamless Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (S-BFD) reflector node configured to operate an S-BFD session with an S-BFD initiator node. The node includes circuitry configured to, responsive to an S-BFD discriminator change in the S-BFD session to a new discriminator for the S-BFD session, cache an old discriminator for the S-BFD session, and receive, process, and respond to a S-BFD request from the S-BFD initiator node with an S-BFD response including one of the new discriminator or the old discriminator.
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