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Tunnel management method, apparatus, and system

US12335150B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 2, 2023
Grant dateJun 17, 2025
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Expiry dateDec 25, 2043

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L45/64
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A tunnel management method includes sending, by a head node of an end-to-end segment routing traffic engineering (SR-TE) tunnel, an operation, administration, and maintenance (OAM) packet to an intermediate node of the SR-TE tunnel, setting an outer label stack of the OAM packet to enable a stack bottom label to point to the intermediate node, receiving an identifying the OAM packet by an intermediate node, obtaining, by the intermediate node, OAM information related to a tunnel between the head node and the intermediate node of the SR-TE tunnel, and sending, by one or more intermediate nodes of the SR-TE tunnel, OAM information obtained by the intermediate nodes to a control management device.

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