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- Patent Title: Network operations reactive to operations data included in seamless bidirectional forwarding detection (S-BFD) packets
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Application No.: US16392299Application Date: 2019-04-23
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Publication No.: US10972381B2Publication Date: 2021-04-06
- Inventor: Carlos M. Pignataro , Nagendra Kumar Nainar , Reshad Rahman , Frank Brockners , Shwetha Subray Bhandari
- 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: The Law Office of Kirk D. Williams
- Main IPC: H04L12/707
- IPC: H04L12/707 ; H04L12/703 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L12/24

Abstract:
In one embodiment, in-band operations data (e.g., In-situ Operations, Administration, Maintenance and/or other operations data) is added to Seamless Bidirectional Forwarding (S-BFD) packets. In one embodiment, a S-BFD packet received by a node includes a BFD discriminator and operations data. Reactive processing is identified based on the BFD discriminator. The S-BFD packet and the operations data (e.g., in an operations data field in a header of the received S-BFD packet, in an IOAM Type-Length-Value (TLV), etc.) is processed according to the identified reactive function. Examples of these reactive actions include, but are not limited to, determining a result based on processing of said particular operations data by the local node or a remote analytics server, and sending a response packet including unprocessed and/or a result of the processed operations data (e.g., performance, loss, jitter, an indication of compliance with a service level agreement, and/or another data measurement or result).
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