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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2008
Alan Mcguire, Felixstowe, GB;
Neil Harrison, Totnes, GB;
Alan McGuire, Felixstowe, GB;
Neil Harrison, Totnes, GB;
British Telecommunications public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
A method of partitioning the header stack of a data packet, the header stack conforming to a label switching protocol, the method comprising: receiving the packet at an edge mode of a routing domain in the communication system; and processing the label header stack at the edge node to add a new stack entry having a label field comprising a value which delimits the header stack entries between a stack domain configurable by the node belonging to a first routing domain of the label switching protocol and at least one other stack domain configurable by a node belonging to another routing domain of the communications system.