ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,126, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Dial-out telemetry for network management" was invented by Ravi Halappa (San Jose, Calif.) and Sijie Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dial-out telemetry for network management includes a tunnel client configured to form a tunnel service for telemetry inside a dialed-out tunnel from the tunnel client to a tunnel server, wherein the tunnel service is between a network element, communicatively coupled to the tunnel client, and a network management system communicatively coupled to the tunnel server, and preserve the tunnel service via keepalives ...