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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2011
Eric W. Osborne, Sutton, MA (US);
Prabhu Vaithilingam, Kanata, CA;
Eric W. Osborne, Sutton, MA (US);
Prabhu Vaithilingam, Kanata, CA;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a technique enables protection, e.g., Fast Reroute (FRR) protection, for selective traffic in an area of a computer network. A source node, located at an edge or perimeter of a network area or located in the core of the network area, may utilize one of a plurality of labels when forwarding traffic to a destination node, wherein a first label ('a protected label') indicates that traffic receive FRR protection and a second label ('an unprotected label') indicates that that traffic not receive FRR protection.
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