LAYER 2 VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK OVER PBB-TE/PBT AND SEAMLESS INTERWORKING WITH VPLS

Patent №

US 8,018,880

Granted

2011-09-13

Filed 2008

Owner

HAMMERHEAD SYSTEMS, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12079413

A Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN) system is provided. A Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) network is provided which comprises a plurality of sites to be connected via a L2VPN. The plurality of sites in the PBB network is connected using a plurality of provider backbone trunks that includes a Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) trunk or a Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) trunk, such that the L2VPN includes the plurality of sites.

AI hardwareH04L 12/4662H04L 12/4604H04L 45/50

AI classification

AI hardware0.79
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

HAMMERHEAD SYSTEMS, INC.

assignment · 211120104

Assignors

FIGUEIRA, NORIVAL R., GITLIN, RICHARD D.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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