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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2001
Applicants:
Jayakumar Jayakumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Hariprasad Ginjpalli, Cupertino, CA (US);
Durai Chinnaiah, San Jose, CA (US);
Anil Joshi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sobha Kumar Kondaveeti, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jayakumar Jayakumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Hariprasad Ginjpalli, Cupertino, CA (US);
Durai Chinnaiah, San Jose, CA (US);
Anil Joshi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sobha Kumar Kondaveeti, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cicso Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A first and a second switching node establish a tunnel to transport a packet through a multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS) network. The tunnel is associated with a unique tunnel key. One or more virtual ciruit (VC) labels are automatically generated using the tunnel key.