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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2006
Mike Shand, Cobham, GB;
Stewart F. Bryant, Merstham, GB;
David D. Ward, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Gargi Nalawade, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Raszuk, Komorow, PL;
Keyur Patel, San Jose, CA (US);
Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, BE;
Stefano B. Previdi, Rome, IT;
Mike Shand, Cobham, GB;
Stewart F. Bryant, Merstham, GB;
David D. Ward, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Gargi Nalawade, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Raszuk, Komorow, PL;
Keyur Patel, San Jose, CA (US);
Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, BE;
Stefano B. Previdi, Rome, IT;
Cisco Technolgy, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an apparatus and method are described for constructing a repair path in the event of non-availability of a routing domain component of a routing domain comprising, as components, links and nodes. The apparatus is arranged to receive respective network repair addresses from each of the far-side and near-side advertising node for use in the event of non-availability of a routing domain component between the advertising node. The apparatus is further arranged to advertise the near-side advertising node network repair address to one or more far-side nodes via a path external to the routing domain.