Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Segment routing—egress peer engineering (SP-EPE)
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Application No.: US14637510Application Date: 2015-03-04
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Publication No.: US09912577B2Publication Date: 2018-03-06
- Inventor: Clarence Filsfils , Keyur P. Patel , David D. Ward , Pierre Jean Rene François , Stefano B. Previdi
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Parker Ibrahim & Berg LLC
- Agent James M. Behmke; Stephen D. LeBarron
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173 ; H04L12/715

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a controller device in a computer network domain learns border gateway protocol (BGP) egress peering segments from one or more border routers of the domain, and determines a selected flow to segment route via a particular egress peering segment, the selected flow from a given routing device within the domain to a given destination of a remote domain. As such, the controller device may then instruct the given routing device to segment route the selected flow via the particular egress peering segment. In another embodiment, an egress border router shares its BGP egress peering segments, and receives a flow to segment route. The egress border router may determine, from a segment route contained within the flow, to which particular egress peering segment of the border router to segment route the flow, and forwards the flow out of the domain via the particular egress peering segment.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150304206A1 SEGMENT ROUTING - EGRESS PEER ENGINEERING (SP-EPE) Public/Granted day:2015-10-22
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