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Patent No.:

US 8549178 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013

Filed:

May. 25, 2010

Using provider backbone bridged network to reduce the number of media access control addresses visible to core bridges in the data center

Applicants:

Robert Sultan, Somers, NY (US);

T. Benjamin Mack-crane, Downers Grove, IL (US);

Inventors:

Robert Sultan, Somers, NY (US);

T. Benjamin Mack-Crane, Downers Grove, IL (US);

Assignee:

Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Attorneys:

Conley Rose, P.C.

Grant Rodolph

Rayhao Chung

Primary Examiner:

Boris Gorney

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system comprising a backbone core bridge (BCB) in a provider backbone bridged network (PBBN), and a backbone edge bridge (BEB) coupled to the BCB via a provider network port (PNP) and to a customer bridge in a customer bridged network via a C-tagged service interface, wherein the C-tagged service interface maps a service instance from the customer bridged network that is identified by a customer-virtual local area network identifier (C-VID) to a backbone service instance on the PBBN that is identified by a service instance identifier (I-SID).

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