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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2013
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Katherine Zhao, San Jose, CA (US);
Ying Chen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Qianglin Quintin Zhao, Boxborough, MA (US);
Tao Zhou, Beijing, CN;
Renwei Li, Fremont, CA (US);
Lin Han, San Jose, CA (US);
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus comprising a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to transmit a backup Label Switched Path (LSP) multicast Resource Reservation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (mRSVP-TE) path request (PATH) message upstream, wherein the backup LSP PATH message requests reservation of a first backup LSP to protect a first primary LSP configured to transmit multicast data, and wherein the backup LSP PATH message is transmitted to support a facility mode one to many (1:N) fast reroute protocol.