US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 14 for "System and method for MAC scalability and host mobility with layer-3 optimized integrated routing and bridging (IRB)" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,890, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for MAC scalability and host mobility with layer-3 optimized integrated routing and bridging (IRB)" was invented by Ali Sajassi (Alamo, Calif.), Neeraj Malhotra (Los Gatos, Calif.), Krishnaswamy Muddenahally Ananthamurthy (Leander, Texas) and Chuanfa Wang (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes receiving an address-resolution-protocol (ARP) request at a first edge device from a first host device, advertising a first remote route associated with a first flag indicating the first edge device operates i...