CPC H04L 45/50 (2013.01) | 4 Claims |
1. A system for use in an MPLS network, said system comprising:
a) a routing element that shares one or more circuits among multiple Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) routing protocol instances;
b) a plurality of routing protocol instances each of which is associated with a database from among a plurality of databases;
c) a managing entity that manages plurality of traffic engineering software agents, and dynamically selects a database from among the plurality of databases, to be associated with a traffic engineering software agent from among said plurality of the traffic engineering software agents, wherein said traffic engineering software agent conveys traffic along a path being currently used for conveying traffic, and wherein said selection of a database is made based on an ad hoc selection of a database from among the plurality of databases;
d) wherein said managing entity updates databases associated with respective routing protocol instances and based on that update, allocates available resources to routing protocol instances via which traffic is being conveyed; and
e) wherein said managing entity conveys traffic via a specific routing protocol instance, wherein said specific routing protocol instance is associated with the one or more databases currently selected from among the plurality of databases.
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