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Optical wavekey network and a method for distributing management information therein

  • US 20040249976A1
  • Filed: 12/12/2003
  • Published: 12/09/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An Open Shortest Path Found (OSPF) packet of an OSPF protocol used in a network having a plurality of nodes connected by optical links, the OSPF packet comprising an opaque Link State Advertisement (LSA), the LSA including:

  • an LSA header having a single Vendatt Link State Identification (ID) field instead of the Opaque Type and the Type-Specific ID fields of a standard LSA header; and

    a set of Vendor Attribute Type/Length/Value (TLV) fields, the Value field including an Enterprise Code field and a Vendatt-Data section, and the Type field being a Vendatt-Type field indicating the presence of the Enterprise Code field in the Value field;

    the Vendatt Link State ID field of the LSA header indicating the presence of the set of Vendor Attribute TLV fields.

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