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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2014
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Dante J. Pacella, Charles Town, WV (US);
Venkata Josyula, Ashburn, VA (US);
Mani Tadayon, Leesburg, VA (US);
Mark D. Carney, Sterling, VA (US);
Christopher Allen Lenart, Fairfax, VA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A computer system may include logic configured to generate a topology model of an autonomous system; detect a route advertisement, relating to an external autonomous system, from a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) router; select a client BGP router; determine a next hop destination to the external autonomous system for the selected second BGP router, based on the detected route advertisement and based on the generated topology model; and provide the determined next hop destination to the selected client BGP router.