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AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc., a corporation of California
InventorsKannan Jayaraman, Samer Salam, Shwetha Subray Bhandari, Jose A. Liste
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In one embodiment, a packet switching device receives a notification that a link has a diminished packet transport capacity. In response, the packet switching devices changes forwarding information for a portion of the packet traffic being sent over the diminished packet transport capacity link to traverse one or more reroute paths not including the diminished link, while some packet traffic continues to use the diminished packet transport capacity link. This notification can be received directly from a communications device, or via a routing protocol such as for a remote link that sent packet traffic may traverse. These rerouted paths may be precomputed and installed in forwarding data structures for fast rerouting, or computed and installed in response to receiving the notification. In one embodiment, quality of service (QoS) is adjusted in response to receiving the notification.
A method, comprising:
A packet switching device, comprising:
One or more non-transitory media encoding logic that includes instructions for execution, which when executed by a processor is operable to perform operations, comprising:
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