US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 21 for "Virtual router function sharding for scalable multi-tenant routing" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,583, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Virtual router function sharding for scalable multi-tenant routing" was invented by Mohammed Hawari (Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France), Jerome Tollet (Paris), Benoit Ganne (Malakoff, France) and Arthur de Kerhor (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed herein at techniques for scalable network traffic steering in a multi-tenant network. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at an ingress of a multi-tenant network, a data packet, the data packet including a Virtual Network Identifier (VNI) identifying a corresponding tenant for the data packet...