Determining and maintaining hop-count for switched networks

• Main Authors: BOIVIE; RICHARD H, FELDMAN; NANCY KAREN, VISWANATHAN; ARUN, WOUNDY; RICHARD M
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 10.10.2000
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; SELECTING; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

This invention discloses a way to map IP or similar routing information onto a technology that uses label switching and swapping, such as ATM, without the need to change the network paradigm. This allows a network to continue to function and appear as a standard IP network, but with much higher perf...