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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2012
Igor Bryskin, Great Falls, VA (US);
Vishnu Beeram, Fairfax, VA (US);
Wes Doonan, Fairfax, VA (US);
ADVA Optical Networking SE, Meiningen OT Dreissigacker, DE;
Abstract
A network with a network wide extended policy framework comprising: path computation clients (PCCs), associated with at least one local policy enforcement point (PEP); path computation servers (PCSs), associated with at least one policy decision point (PDP). The PEPs and PDPs adapted to exchange attributes determined by at least one PDP. PDPs are adapted to identify network elements/network services requiring identical configuration parameters by evaluating parameters advertised in the network and update policy related to identified groups in case of configuration error. Updated policy is distributed by PDP in policy notification to PEPs associated with network elements/network services of identified group. The PEPs receiving policy notification comprising updated policy from PDP adapted to translate the updated policy into configuration settings of network elements/network services the identified group.