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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2013
Applicant:
Adva Optical Networking SE, Meiningen, DE;
Inventor:
Igor Bryskin, Great Falls, VA (US);
Assignee:
ADVA Optical Networking SE, Meiningen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/815 (2013.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/22 (2013.01); H04L 45/04 (2013.01); H04L 45/123 (2013.01); H04L 45/44 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0001 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for scaling traffic engineering, TE, routing in a network, having a plurality of network elements (nodes) connected in a given layer to each other via links TE domain segments of a TE domain of said network are collapsed into a virtual TE nodes (VNs). Each VN having an allocated DE domain unique identifier and a detailed connectivity matrix, DCM, to provide a hierarchically virtualized network topology of the network.