US 11,870,688 B2
Ethernet services with segment routing with dataplane MAC learning
Sami Boutros, Union City, CA (US); Siva Sivabalan, Kanata (CA); Himanshu Shah, Hopkinton, MA (US); and Peng He, East Brunswick, NJ (US)
Assigned to Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US)
Filed by Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US)
Filed on Jul. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/858,451.
Application 17/858,451 is a continuation of application No. 17/007,084, filed on Aug. 31, 2020, granted, now 11,418,436.
Application 17/007,084 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/870,113, filed on May 8, 2020, granted, now 11,184,276, issued on Nov. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0337517 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 45/50 (2022.01); H04L 47/70 (2022.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); H04L 45/48 (2022.01); H04L 61/103 (2022.01); H04L 45/44 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 45/50 (2013.01) [G06F 13/4022 (2013.01); H04L 45/44 (2013.01); H04L 45/48 (2013.01); H04L 47/825 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A node in a Segment Routing network comprising circuitry configured to:
signal first service Segment Identifiers (SIDs), for one or more first Ethernet services configured at the node, to other nodes in the Segment Routing network,
receive second service SIDs for one or more second Ethernet services configured at the other nodes in the Segment Routing network, and
configure the second service SIDs for the one or more second Ethernet services,
wherein the one or more first Ethernet services and the one or more second Ethernet services include Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN), and the first service SIDs and the second service SIDs replace EVPN Route Types 1, 2, and 3.