US Patent Issued to Ciena on Nov. 18 for "BGP LU resiliency using an anycast SID and BGP driven anycast path selection" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,907, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"BGP LU resiliency using an anycast SID and BGP driven anycast path selection" was invented by Himanshu Shah (Hopkinton, Mass.), Atul Vadera (Gurugram, India), Jayant Kumar Bhardwaj (Gurugram, India) and Piyush Sharma (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node, in a first network, includes circuitry configured to determine a next hop as decided by Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an anycast prefix to a Route Reflector (RR) interconnecting the first network with a second network, responsive to the next hop being the anycast prefix to the RR, create a tunne...