US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 10 for "Optimal multicast forwarding for sources behind EVPN fabric" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,401, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optimal multicast forwarding for sources behind EVPN fabric" was invented by Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.), Sameer R Gulrajani (Fremont, Calif.), Ali Sajassi (Alamo, Calif.), Swadesh Agrawal (Fremont, Calif.) and Nitin Kumar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and associated methods provide procedures for establishing multicast connections and forwarding multicast content from a source to a subscriber when an ingress provider edge in communication with the subscriber is connected to an egress provider edge device belo...