US Patent Issued to Ciena on June 2 for "Minimal SID depth for ring topologies in segment routing via a PCE and Flex-Algo" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,363, issued on June 2, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Minimal SID depth for ring topologies in segment routing via a PCE and Flex-Algo" was invented by Cengiz Alaettinoglu (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) and Amal Karboubi (Oshawa, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods, associated with a Segment Routing network including a plurality of nodes in a ring, include defining a first Flexible Algorithm having one or more first constraints for links in the ring to force traffic to flow in a first direction around the ring; and defining a second Flexible Algorithm having one or more second constraints for of the links i...