Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Signaling aliasing capability in data centers
- Patent Title (中): 数据中心信号混叠能力
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Application No.: US14585841Application Date: 2014-12-30
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Publication No.: US09590902B2Publication Date: 2017-03-07
- Inventor: Wen Lin , Vasudevan Venkatraman , John E. Drake
- Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.
- Priority: IN5642/CHE/2014 20141110
- Main IPC: H04L29/12
- IPC: H04L29/12 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L12/721 ; H04L12/715 ; H04L12/723 ; G06F11/00

Abstract:
Techniques are described for signaling aliasing capability between routers in a multi-tenant data center that uses VPNs, such as Ethernet VPNs. In the multi-tenant data center, two or more PE routers may be connected to a CE router by a multi-homed L2 segment in an all-active mode. Aliasing refers to the ability of a PE router to signal that it can reach a given multi-homed L2 segment even when the PE router has learned no MAC addresses over that multi-homed L2 segment. The PE routers on the multi-homed L2 segment advertise aliasing capability using a route advertisement on a per-L2 segment basis. When the multi-tenant data center uses global VPN identifiers, no additional information is needed by a remote PE to build an ECMP next hop to the PE routers that support aliasing, and transmission of a route advertisement on a per-VPN basis may be suppressed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160134528A1 SIGNALING ALIASING CAPABILITY IN DATA CENTERS Public/Granted day:2016-05-12
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