ABSTRACT A network, network devices, and methods are described for marked packet
forwarding. A network device includes a net work chip having a number of network ports for …

(57) ABSTRACT A system for responding to failures of connections in a network. In one
embodiment, there is a system for respond ing to destination failures involving SPVx …

Applications such as VoIP and pseudo-wires can be very sensitive to traffic loss, such as
occurs when a link or router in the network fails. A router's convergence time is generally on …

A novel fast reroute (FRR) technique is provided for quickly and efficiently rerouting selected
types of network traffic in response to a node or link failure at the edge of a computer …

(57) ABSTRACT A network, network devices, and methods are described for marked packet
forwarding. A network device includes a net work chip having a number of network ports for …

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Patents US9100269B2 - Provisioned provider link state bridging (PLSB) with routed back-up …

A method in a Maintenance Association Endpoint, MEP, for controlling traffic between a first
network element and a second network element connected by a working Traffic Engineering …

US7864669B2 - Method of constructing a backup path in an autonomous system - Google
Patents US7864669B2 - Method of constructing a backup path in an autonomous system …

Network traffic is sent via alternate paths in cases of network link or node failure. An
alternate node responds to U-Turn traffic from a primary neighbor to select a further …

(57) ABSTRACT A method and apparatus for tunneling protocols are described. In one
embodiment, the method comprises broad casting a message at a repeater to one or more …