16 results about "Provider Edge" patented technology

Ethernet VPN supports All-Active multihoming and an ingress Provider Edge (PE) can load balance traffic to all the egress PEs on a multihoming Ethernet Segment (MHES). Methods, devices, and systems to allow an operator to have the ingress PE load-balance to only a set of the PEs on the MHES are described. In the event that all PEs of the set are not usable (e.g., down, not attached to the ES, etc.), the ingress PE can load balance data traffic to one or more PEs on the MHES that are not in the set.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, in response to a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update from an egress provider edge router connected to a destination customer network, receiving a request for an end-to-end SR policy or an end-to-end path from an ingress provider edge router, where the BGP update includes a prefix of the destination customer network and a first color; using color mapping data, determining a first domain associated with the first color and determining a second color to be associated with a second domain and mapped to the first color, where a color is a numerical value associated with a network intent of a domain, the color mapping data define mappings between different colors associated with different domains, and the mapped first color and second color enable identification of a first intent and a second intent that belong to the first domain and the second domain, respectively; and generating the end-to-end path reflecting each definition of the first and the second intents identified by the first color in the first domain and the second color in the second domain. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A method to establish an optimized frame format used by a first compute node (21) acting as ingress PE and a second compute node (22) acting as egress PE in the transport of overlay ethernet traffic containing an IP payload from the source overlay endpoint attached to or hosted in the first compute node (21) to the destination overlay endpoint attached to or hosted in the second compute node (22) through a Multi Protocol Label Switching, MPLS, underlay network (2), where the frame format is a conventional MPLS tagged ethernet frame format, wherein an MPLS label stack is inserted between the ethernet header and the IP header of the overlay ethernet frame, where the single ethernet header carries the destination and source overlay Media Access Control, MAC, addresses when the frame was originated from the source overlay endpoint, where the MPLS header of the frame comprises a top label with the Label Switch Path, LSP, label towards the destination Provider Edge, PE, router, ie. egress PE, and a bottom label, e.g. an optimization MPLS label, holding information enabling the forwarding mechanism in the egress PE router to restore the original destination and source overlay MAC addresses.

A system and associated methods provide procedures for establishing multicast connections and forwarding multicast content from a source to a subscriber when an ingress provider edge in communication with the subscriber is connected to an egress provider edge device belonging to an EVPN instance, especially in cases where the egress provider edge device is not receiving content from the source. The system configures “backup” provider edge devices belonging to the EVPN instance to temporarily forward the multicast content to the egress provider edge device on behalf of the source, enabling the ingress provider edge device and subscriber to continue to receive the multicast content from the source while the multicast network adjusts to recognize a new egress provider edge device. Methods of establishing connections between the ingress provider edge device and the correct egress provider edge device are also provided to avoid flooding and inefficient content forwarding throughout the network.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, having: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations including: receiving a border gateway protocol (BGP) prefix from a first provider edge (PE) router; determining that a second PE router failed to send the BGP prefix to the device; confirming that the BGP prefix is valid; and sending the BGP prefix to the second PE router. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Mobile User Plane (MUP) over Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is implemented over an access an access network connecting a provider edge router to a gateway router, the gateway router being connected to a base station having a wireless connection to user equipment (UE). Traffic between the provider edge router and the gateway router is routed according to both of multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) protocol and mobile user plane (MUP) protocol. An MUP-controller may discover the UE, base station, and corresponding tunnel information and transmit this information to the provider edge router and gateway router, which then create an MPLS label and routing entries to implement MUP.

The present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for multifactor authentication using network address translation data. A method performed by a processing system includes receiving, from a host device in a communication network, a request to authenticate a user, wherein the request includes a purported identity of the user and a public internet protocol address assigned to a user endpoint device from which a request to access a resource at the host device was sent, querying a provider edge server for a verification that the purported identity matches an identity associated with a private internet protocol address that is mapped to the public internet protocol address, receiving a first response from the provider edge server, determining whether to authenticate the user based on the first response from the provider edge server, and sending a second response to the host device indicating a result of the determining.

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a route reflector, a subscription request from a first provider edge node in a network and generating a subscription policy for the first provider edge node. The method also includes receiving a first Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) Type 2 Route from a second provider edge node, assigning a sequence number to the first EVPN Type 2 Route, and communicating the first EVPN Type 2 Route with the sequence number to the first provider edge node. The method further includes receiving a second EVPN Type 2 Route from a third provider edge node, generating an updated sequence number in response to receiving the second EVPN Type 2 Route from the third provider edge node, and communicating the second EVPN Type 2 Route with the updated sequence number to the first provider edge node and the second provider node.

A system and associated methods provide procedures for establishing multicast connections and forwarding multicast content from a source to a subscriber when an ingress provider edge in communication with the subscriber is connected to an egress provider edge device belonging to an EVPN instance, especially in cases where the egress provider edge device is not receiving content from the source. The system configures “backup” provider edge devices belonging to the EVPN instance to temporarily forward the multicast content to the egress provider edge device on behalf of the source, enabling the ingress provider edge device and subscriber to continue to receive the multicast content from the source while the multicast network adjusts to recognize a new egress provider edge device. Methods of establishing connections between the ingress provider edge device and the correct egress provider edge device are also provided to avoid flooding and inefficient content forwarding throughout the network.

The invention discloses a high-efficiency GPNPU (General Purpose Network Processing Unit) chip architecture with integrated memory and calculation, which belongs to the technical field of NPU chip architectures and comprises a plurality of array PE (Provider Edge) units, each PE unit comprises a local memory and a calculation unit and can independently execute vector and tensor calculation tasks, and the plurality of PE units are connected through data channels to realize direct exchange and sharing of data. Therefore, dependence on an external memory is reduced, and data processing efficiency is improved. According to the method, various existing AI network models can be supported, particularly, hardware, large-scale and instruction processing is carried out on operators in a recently popular LLM (Large Language Model), the AI calculation requirement of a large data volume is met, parallel calculation is achieved through specific instruction combination, the AI calculation efficiency and speed are improved, and complex AI tasks can be rapidly processed.

In one example, techniques are provided for extending an active measurement protocol with an Operations, Administration and Management / Maintenance (OAM) channel. A first Provider Edge (PE) node obtains from or provides to a second PE node, over a packet-switched network via an overlay, OAM data in an OAM channel of the active measurement protocol. The OAM data relates to a networking issue. The network issue is automatically resolved responsive to the OAM data.

A system and method are provided for faster convergence with multihoming using internet protocol (IP) performance measurement (PM) sessions to report, to a transmitting provider edge (PE), a state of health of a connection between a multihomed node and a receiving (PE). The state of health can be the liveness of the connection. The receiving PE locally monitors the state of health of its connection to the node, and encodes information of the state of health in a field of the PM session messages sent to the transmitting PE. For example, while the PM session messages indicate the connection is live, traffic from the transmitting PE to the node is routed through the receiving PE. Upon the PM session messages indicating the connection is no longer live, the transmitting PE instead routes traffic to the node through another receiving PE with which the node is multihomed.

Mobile User Plane (MUP) over Multi -Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is implemented over an access an access network connecting a provider edge router to a gateway router, the gateway router being connected to a base station having a wireless connection to user equipment (UE). Traffic between the provider edge router and the gateway router is routed according to both of multi -protocol label switching (MPLS) protocol and mobile user plane (MUP) protocol. An MUP-controller may discover the UE, base station, and corresponding tunnel information and transmit this information to the provider edge router and gateway router, which then create an MPLS label and routing entries to implement MUP.

Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a method and apparatus for receiving border gateway protocol routing, and a method and apparatus for sending border gateway protocol routing, and a storage medium. The receiving method includes: Virtual Private Network (VPN) service routing is received by a first Provider Edge (PE) device in a first domain from a second PE device in a second domain, where the VPN service routing includes an address of the second PE device; an Outbound Route Filtering (ORF) entry strategy is generated by the first PE device according to the VPN service routing, and the ORF entry strategy is sent to a border device, where the ORF entry strategy includes the address of the second PE device; and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing matching the ORF entry strategy and sent by the border device is received by the first PE device.

One or more encapsulated tunnel aggregator devices are distributed across the provider's network. The tunnel aggregator devices may receive clean return traffic from managed security routers (MSRs) and route the traffic through encapsulated tunnels to customer endpoints, thereby reducing the routing load on the MSRs. The tunnel aggregator devices may be deployed physically or logically close to the MSRs, which can facilitate routing return traffic from the MSRs to the tunnel aggregator devices for final transmission to customer endpoints. In other examples, tunnel aggregator devices may be deployed close to other provider network resources, such as provider edge routers.

The present disclosure relates to a communication method, apparatus and system, and a mobile network, a storage medium and a program product. The communication method comprises: receiving segment routing over Internet protocol version 6 (SRv6) routing information of a base station, which is issued by the base station to a software defined network controller agent by means of an access and mobility management function network element; receiving SRv6 routing information of a user plane function network element, which is issued by the user plane function network element to the software defined network controller agent; receiving SRv6 routing information of a provider edge router, which is sent by a software defined network controller; and managing the collected SRv6 routing information of the base station, SRv6 routing information of the user plane function network element and SRv6 routing information of the provider edge router. In the present disclosure, an SRv6 routing scheme is introduced into a mobile network, and the generation and update of a route are implemented by means of function enhancement of an SMF, thereby maintaining relatively independent management of the mobile network and reducing the complexity of issuing the route.