US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on July 29 for "Fast convergence in access networks" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,388, issued on July 29, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fast convergence in access networks" was invented by Satya Ranjan Mohanty (San Ramon, Calif.), Soumya Roy (Fremont, Calif.), Yuri Tsier (Kanata, Canada) and Apoorva Karan (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a first provider edge (PE) router is coupled to a first customer edge (CE) router; a second CE router; and a second PE router. The second PE router is coupled to the first CE router and the second CE router. The first PE router is configured with a primary label comprising a primary next hop of the first CE router ...