US Patent Issued to Ciena on Feb. 24 for "Simple fast convergence using static pseudowire in a dual homing configuration" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,982, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Simple fast convergence using static pseudowire in a dual homing configuration" was invented by Sami Boutros (Union City, Calif.), Muthurajah Sivabalan (Kanata, Canada), David Gilson (Honolulu), Mohammad Furqanul Haq (Ottawa) and Ozgur Bulbul (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Provider Edge (PE) router includes a plurality of ports configured to connect to one or more Customer Edge (CE) devices, wherein the plurality of ports are in an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) with a second PE router having a second plurality of ports; a static connecti...