US Patent Issued to Ciena on June 2 for "Centralized approach to SR-TE paths with bandwidth guarantee using a single SID" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,348, issued on June 2, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Centralized approach to SR-TE paths with bandwidth guarantee using a single SID" was invented by Muthurajah Sivabalan (Kanata, Canada), Sami Boutros (Union City, Calif.) and Cengiz Alaettinoglu (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include determining (52) a Multi-Point to Point (MP2P) tree from a plurality of source nodes (S1-S5) to a destination node (D) in a Segment Routing network (10), wherein the plurality of source nodes (S1-S5) are sending traffic with guaranteed bandwidth requirements to the destination node (D), and wherein...