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Muthurajah Sivabalan0
Tao Wang0
Ashwath Narasimhan0
Jahanzeb Baqai0
Date of Patent
April 23, 2024
0Patent Application Number
181082880
Date Filed
February 10, 2023
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A node in a Segment Routing Internet Protocol version 6 (SRv6) network includes circuitry configured to, for a packet destined to a Service Function Chain (SFC), encode one or more micro-Segment Identifiers (uSIDs) for the SFC, wherein at least one uSID of the one or more uSIDs includes an Endpoint Behavior field, responsive to the at least one uSID needing one or more Arguments, include the one or more Arguments after the Endpoint Behavior field, and transmit the packet towards the SFC. The present disclosure presents various techniques to utilize uSIDs for SFC.
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