ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,776, issued on March 25, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Dynamic L2VPN pseudowire signaling through segment routing" was invented by Susanta Kumar Pradhan (Gurgaon, India), Mukul Sharma (Gurgaon, India), Amit Kumar Choudhary (Dwarka, India) and Mohit Sharma (Jaipur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include receiving a pseudowire configuration for a pseudowire with a second network element; configuring the pseudowire as segment routing; adding the pseudowire configuration in link state advertisements (LSAs) that are flooding in a network via an interior gateway protocol (IGP); and maintaining a st...