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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2014
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Sami Boutros, San Ramon, CA (US);
Yuri Tsier, Kanata, CA;
Muthurajah Sivabalan, Kanata, CA;
Pradosh Mohapatra, Fremont, CA (US);
Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, BE;
John H. W. Bettink, San Jose, CA (US);
Luca Martini, Lakewood, CO (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an access component of a local network edge device receives traffic, and generates a frame for the traffic that includes a remote context label that identifies an access component of the remote network edge device to which the traffic is to be forwarded upon arrival at the remote network edge device, and a virtual circuit label corresponding to a particular virtual service of the traffic. The local network edge device forwards the frame towards the remote network edge device. In another embodiment, the frame may be received at a core component of the remote network edge device, an in response to the remote context label identifying an access component of the remote network edge device, forwarded to the access component, which determines the particular virtual service, and forwards the traffic from the frame out the access component towards an endpoint for the traffic.