US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 15 for "High bandwidth encryption engines in a multipathing IP network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,082, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"High bandwidth encryption engines in a multipathing IP network" was invented by Govind Prasad Sharma (Union City, Calif.), Prabhu Balakannan (Milpitas, Calif.) and Sivakumar Kailas (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating a per-packet initialization vector for high bandwidth encryption engines in a multipathing IP network are described herein. In examples, a network switch of a first datacenter site may receive a data packet to be sent to a second datacenter site over a network. The data packet may be encrypted accord...