US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 18 for "Ethernet virtual private network using segment routing" (Canadian, Belgian, American, French, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,976, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Ethernet virtual private network using segment routing" was invented by Patrice Brissette (Gatineau, Canada), Clarence Filsfils (Brussels), Darren Dukes (Ottawa), Gaurav Dawra (San Jose, Calif.), Francois Clad (Strasbourg, France) and Pablo Camarillo Garvia (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) is implemented using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Segment Routing (SRv6) underlay network and SRv6-enhanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signaling. A particular route associated with a particul...