US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 26 for "Egress filtering for E-TREE over EVPN" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,024, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Egress filtering for E-TREE over EVPN" was invented by Ali Sajassi (Alamo, Calif.) and Chuanfa Wang (Ontario, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for performing filtering of frames by a provider edge device. The techniques comprise receiving information about one or more local customer edge devices in communication with a provider edge device. The techniques further comprise receiving a frame (e.g., a multi-destination frame) at the provider edge device to be provided to multiple customer edge devices. The techniques fur...