US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 6 for "Stretched EPG and micro-segmentation in multisite fabrics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,532, issued on May 6, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Stretched EPG and micro-segmentation in multisite fabrics" was invented by Javed Asghar (Dublin, Calif.), Sridhar Vallepalli (Fremont, Calif.), Umamaheswararao Karyampudi (Fremont, Calif.) and Srinivas Kotamraju (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endpoint group (EPG) can be stretched between the sites so that endpoints at different sites can be assigned to the same stretched EPG. Because the sites can use different bridge domains when establishing the stretched EPGs, the first time a site transmits a packet to an endpoint in a different ...