US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 17 for "Distributed tenant overlay network with centralized routing control plane" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,475, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed tenant overlay network with centralized routing control plane" was invented by Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.) and Rahim Lalani (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for multi-tenant overlays with per-tenant distributed routing are described herein. The techniques may include provisioning an overlay network such that tenants hosted by a forwarding plane of the overlay network are each configured to forward routing protocol packets to a routing control plane of the overlay network and the routing control p...