ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,718, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Secure EVPN with MKA over BGP" was invented by Ashish Ranjan Panda (Bengaluru, India), Pix Xu (Beijing), Xiangbo Wang (Beijing) and Parul Seth (Delhi, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein provide procedures for reducing MACsec Key Agreement (MKA)-related traffic and improving resource allocation for MKA protocol through an EVPN environment. Techniques include leveraging Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signaling for MKA between Provider Edge (PE) routers instead of between Customer Edge (CE) routers, which mitigates both hardware...