US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 17 for "Private SD-WAN peering" (French, Dutch, Polish, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,849, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Private SD-WAN peering" was invented by Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France), Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland), Pierre-Andre Savalle (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Eduard Schornig (Haarlem, Netherlands) and Michal Wladyslaw Garcarz (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device identifies available resources of a tunnel in a first software defined network. The device provides, based on the available resources, an indication that the tunnel is available to convey traffic sent by a second software defined network. The...