Patent ID: 9350605
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for controlling a multi-protocol label switching transport protocol (MPLS-TP) network of label switching nodes that interface to a data plane, comprising encapsulating a dynamic tunnel management and signaling control plane protocol message in a data plane protocol encapsulating packet; communicating the data plane protocol encapsulating packet to a destination label switching node, through a data plane channel in the data plane; extracting, at the destination label switching node, at least a portion of the dynamic tunnel management and signaling control plane protocol message from the data plane protocol encapsulating packet; and performing, at the destination label switching node, a dynamic tunnel management process based at least in part on the extracted at least a portion of the dynamic tunnel management control plane protocol message; wherein the data plane protocol encapsulating packet comprises a multi-instance identifier field having a multi-instance identifier object identifying a specific control plane instance in a given multi-instance control plane environment.