US Patent Issued to Ciena on July 15 for "Zero touch configuration for a mesh of nodes using segment routing flexible algorithm" (Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,022, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Zero touch configuration for a mesh of nodes using segment routing flexible algorithm" was invented by Bhupendra Yadav (Ottawa), Prabhu Vaithilingam (Kanata, Canada), Gerald Smallegange (Stittsville, Canada) and Alwyn Joy George (Harinagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for zero touch configuration for a mesh of nodes using Segment Routing Flexible Algorithm define a Flex Algo Definition (FAD) of an auto-mesh plane. A method, in one embodiment, includes, responsive to the FAD, providing an advertisement of a Prefix Segment Identifier (SID)...