US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 3 for "Access tunnel redundancy for wireless client devices across fabric edges" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,079, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Access tunnel redundancy for wireless client devices across fabric edges" was invented by Rajagopal Venkatraman (San Jose, Calif.), Roberto Mitsuo Kobo (Pleasanton, Calif.), Vinod Chandran (Newark, Calif.) and Sujith Viswanath (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an overlay access network, a first access tunnel between a first fabric edge node and a wireless access point (AP) can be configured as active, based on the first fabric edge node being active. A second access tunnel between a second fabric edge node and the wireless AP can be conf...