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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2012
Katherine Zhao, San Jose, CA (US);
Renwei LI, Fremont, CA (US);
Lin Han, San Jose, CA (US);
Shujin Zhang, San Carlos, CA (US);
Xiaoqian Wu, Beijing, CN;
Katherine Zhao, San Jose, CA (US);
Renwei Li, Fremont, CA (US);
Lin Han, San Jose, CA (US);
Shujin Zhang, San Carlos, CA (US);
Xiaoqian Wu, Beijing, CN;
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A network component for supporting packet forwarding in a United Router Farm (URF), the network component comprising a processor configured to receive a packet, encapsulate the packet using a URF header comprising a URF Layer Two (L2) header that indicates Media Access Control (MAC) addresses of current and next hops, an outer label that indicates a tunnel to a destination node in the URF, and an inner label that indicates an egress port on the destination node, and send the packet to a next hop in the URF after encapsulating the packet.