MUMBAI, India, Aug. 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411099932 A) filed by Ciena Corporation on December 17, 2024, for System And Method To Discover Candidate Ptp Clock Source(s) Over Ip/Mpls Network.
Inventors include Srivastava, Sharad Kumar; Garg, Vineet Kumar; Singh, Krishan; and Chauhan, Vijendra Singh.
The application for the patent was published on August 14, 2026, under issue no. 33/2026.
Abstract: SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DISCOVER CANDIDATE PTP CLOCK SOURCE(S) OVER IP/MPLS NETWORK Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including: a processing system including a processor; a clock; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of: advertising via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) a capability as a precision timing protocol (PTP) master clock through an Internet Protocol (IP) / Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, wherein the advertising includes an IP address of the device; receiving a unicast signaling mechanism from a PTP client node in the network; and sending clock messages to the PTP client node responsive to accepting the PTP client node. Other embodiments are disclosed.
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