Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Communicating packets across multi-domain networks using compact forwarding instructions
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Application No.: US17404817Application Date: 2021-08-17
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Publication No.: US11722404B2Publication Date: 2023-08-08
- Inventor: Clarence Filsfils , Francois Clad , Zafar Ali , Peter Psenak
- 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: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: H04L12/721
- IPC: H04L12/721 ; H04L45/00 ; H04L69/22 ; H04L45/02

Abstract:
Techniques and mechanisms for compressing the size of SIDs to be smaller than a complete IPv6 address (or “micro SIDs”), and scaling micro SIDs across a multi-domain environment using micro SID-domain-blocks. Segment routing over IPv6 (SRv6) uses 128-bit IPv6 addresses as SIDs for segment routing. According to this disclosure, multiple SRv6 SIDs may be expressed in a compact format such that a 128-bit IPv6 address, such as the destination address field of the IPv6 header, may store multiple micro SIDs. Further, SID-domain-blocks may be assigned to each domain in a multi-domain network such that micro SIDs may be expressed in the context of a given domain, rather than being shared in the global multi-domain network. In this way, lists of domain-specific SIDs may be fully expressed in the IPv6 destination address of the packet to scale micro SID into large, multi-domain networks.
Public/Granted literature
- US11611505B2 Communicating packets across multi-domain networks using compact forwarding instructions Public/Granted day:2023-03-21
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