ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,675, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Disaggregated network operating system" was invented by David Bainbridge (Summerville, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatuses provide a disaggregated network operating system in which control plane and data plane components of the network operating system are distributed across a network controller and network elements. An information model describes a network element and identifies packet processing plug-ins executable by general purpose processors of the network element. The network controller uses the model to generate a packet pipelin...