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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
May. 12, 2009
Samer Salam, Vancouver, CA;
Wojciech Dec, Amsterdam, NL;
Dennis Clare, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Richard Manfred Pruss, Queensland, AU;
Frank Brockners, Cologne, DE;
Samer Salam, Vancouver, CA;
Wojciech Dec, Amsterdam, NL;
Dennis Clare, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Richard Manfred Pruss, Queensland, AU;
Frank Brockners, Cologne, DE;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A customer edge device is automatically configured. A request for customer edge device configuration data may be transmitted to a provider edge device via an Ethernet-layer operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P) protocol. The request for configuration data may be relayed from the Ethernet-layer OAM&P protocol to a configuration protocol. The request for configuration data may be transmitted from the provider edge device to a configuration repository server via the configuration protocol. The configuration repository server may transmit the requested configuration data to the provider edge device via the configuration protocol. The provider edge device may relay the configuration data from the configuration protocol to the Ethernet-layer OAM&P protocol and transmit the configuration data to a customer edge device via the Ethernet-layer OAM&P protocol. The customer edge device may automatically configure itself using the configuration data.