ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,168, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Simplification of layer 2 VPLS control plane" was invented by Sami Boutros (Union City, Calif.), Muthurajah Sivabalan (Ottawa), David Henry Gilson (Honolulu), Tao Wang (Ottawa) and Martin Pepin (Gatineau, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Provider Edge (PE) node is configured to provide a Layer 2 Virtual Private Local Area Network (LAN) service (VPLS) having a simplified control plane. The PE node includes circuitry configured to receive a packet from a second PE node in the network, wherein the packet includes (1) a Destination Media Access Control (MAC) addr...