US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 24 for "Using global virtual network instance (VNI) labels to signal a service chain" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,695, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using global virtual network instance (VNI) labels to signal a service chain" was invented by Christopher Blair Murray (Surrey, Canada), Jon Langemak (Rockford, Minn.), Alvin Wong (Delta, Canada), Alvaro Cesar Pereira (Calgary, Canada) and Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using global virtual network instance (VNI) labels in a multi-domain network to route network data with a multi-tenant network overlay are described herein. A routing device provisioned in a network domain of the multi-domain ne...