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System, method and apparatus providing MVPN fast failover

US9344325B2 · kind B2 · utility

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21Claims

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Assignee

Alcatel Lucent · FR

Inventors

Pradeep G. Jain · Sunnyvale, US
Kanwar D. Singh · Mountain View, US
Jayant Kotalwar · Cupertino, US
Nehal Bhau · San Jose, US
Wim Henderickx · Westerlo, BE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 14, 2013
Grant date	May 17, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 27, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L47/724
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system, method and apparatus of failover indication of a Multicast Virtual Private Networking (MVPN) P-Tunnel at a leaf provider equipment (PE) router. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) attributes may be adapted to associate a BFD discriminator with a P-Tunnel terminated at the Leaf PE router such that BFD session status may be used to indicate a tunnel failure condition.

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