US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 11 for "System and method for multi-PHY based MACsec over secure tunnels" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,532, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for multi-PHY based MACsec over secure tunnels" was invented by Anbu Chezhian Gunalan (San Jose, Calif.), Chennakesava Reddy Gaddam (Bengaluru, India), Annu Singh (Bengaluru, India), Wanli Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and SushilKumar G. Jhawar (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a data packet and generating an optimized security tag based on a standard security tag by replacing an 8-byte optional secure channel identifier (SCI) of the standard security tag with 32 most significant bi...